OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to describe how different adolescents experience and manage pain in their daily life, with a focus on their use of over-the-counter analgesics. More specifically, the aim was to explore different patterns among the adolescents in pain descriptions, in the management of pain, in relationships with others, and in their daily life. DESIGN Qualitative semistruc...

In both cats and Japanese macaques, there are nociceptive specific (NS) and wide dynamic range (WDR) neurons in the shell region of the caudal ventrobasal (VB) complex of the thalamus. This comprises both the nucleus ventralis posteromedialis proper (VPM proper), and the nucleus ventralis posterolateralis (VPL). These two classes of nociceptive neurons are spatially segregated, WDR neurons bein...

background: about 70% of all pregnant women suffer from pelvic girdle pain (pgp)and/or low and high back pain(lbp,hbp). the risk factors for developing pelvic girdle pain and back pain in general are history of previous low back pain or pelvic or pain in previous pregnancy. in order to study the relative frequency of different kinds of backache in pregnancy and possible risk factors for develop...

Coding of itch versus pain has been heatedly debated for decades. However, the current coding theories (labeled line, intensity, and selectivity theory) cannot accommodate all experimental observations. Here we identified a subset of spinal interneurons, labeled by gastrin-releasing peptide (Grp), that receive direct synaptic input from both pain and itch primary sensory neurons. When activated...

In recent publication we present a complete review on PHN treatment [1] (practically and theory), but this brief report is mainly focused on the practical manipulation of treatment. Based on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) there is three pattern of disharmony for Post Herpetic Neuralgia (PHN): Fire blazing, Damp-Heat and qi/Blood stagnation which the later is main cause of pain in PNH [1]. T...

The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is high and increasing worldwide. Patients usually use CAM in addition to conventional medicine, mainly to treat pain. In a large number of cases, people use CAM for chronic musculoskeletal pain as in osteoarthritis, back pain, neck pain, or fibromyalgia. Herewith, a review is presented of CAM efficacy in treating musculoskeletal pain for ...

The analgesic effect of SCS has been known since 1967 when Norman Shealy was able to show electrical stimulation of the dorsal column of spinal cord suppressed the response to noxious stimulation in animal study and abolished pain in a patient with terminal cancer (Shealy et.al. 1967). The rationale for this technique was based on the "gate theory" of pain proposed by Melzack and Wall (Melzack ...