Background. Enucleation is a psychologically and physically traumatic event associated with chronic pain. It would be desirable to better predict which patients will have pain after surgery. Methods. A cross-sectional postal questionnaire study of adults undergoing enucleation captured the demographic details, Pain Quality Assessment Scale (PQAS), Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS), and the Facia...

BACKGROUND Pain is a troublesome non-motor symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD). The RECOVER (Randomized Evaluation of the 24-hour Coverage: Efficacy of Rotigotine; Clintrials.gov: NCT00474058) study demonstrated significant improvements in early-morning motor function (UPDRS III) and sleep disturbances (PDSS-2) with rotigotine transdermal system. Improvements were also reported on a Likert pain...

background: pain as a main social problem has involved millions of people. usually pharmaceutical methods use for treating pain but they have side effects which make them less effective. massage is one of the effective ways for reducing pain after surgery. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of massage therapy on pain severity in orthopedic patients. methods: this is a clinical tri...

Background: Haemorrhoidectomy remains the treatment of choice for symptomatic grade-III and IV hemorrhoids. Milligan and Morgan’s haemorrhoidectomy is the most widely used procedure in the surgical management of hemorrhoids. Aim: This study was done to evaluate and analyze statistically whether stapler haemorrhoidectomy is better than Milligan Morgan haemorrhoidectomy in terms of Post operative...

background premenstrual syndrome (pms) is a group of disorders that many girls and women suffer from. it is well known that an appropriate diet as well as environmental factors plays a major role in quality of life. objectives this study evaluates food patterns for university student girls who suffer from pms and are healthy. materials and methods eighty-six university student girls from ahvaz ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the factors associated with clinical progression and good prognosis in patients with lower limb osteoarthritis (OA). METHODS Cohort study of 145 patients with OA in either knee, hip or both. Progression was defined as 1) new joint prosthesis or 2) increase in WOMAC pain or function score during 6-years follow-up above pre-defined thresholds. Patients without progressi...

OBJECTIVE To describe pain and recovery of physical functioning after total knee arthroplasty. DESIGN A longitudinal design with assessments preoperatively, and 1 week, 3 and 9 months postoperatively. SUBJECTS Sixty-three patients participated. METHODS Pain was assessed by visual analogue scale. Physical functioning was measured by 40-metre timed walking, timed stair-climbing and goniomet...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate endoscopic plantar fasciotomy for the treatment of recalcitrant heel pain. METHOD We undertook a retrospective study of the use of endoscopic plantar fasciotomy in the treatment of chronic heel pain that was unresponsive to conservative treatment. Over a 10-year period, we reviewed the charts of 55 patients with a minimum 12-month history of heel pain that failed to resp...

Purpose: The aim of our work was to explore which of the most commonly used pain scales is best suited to assess treatment success in endometriosis therapy and, therefore, qualifies best to be used as primary endpoint for clinical studies in this indication. Methods: We compared patient’s responses on the different pain scales Visual Analog Scale, Biberoglu and Behrman Score, and SF-36 Bodily P...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the clinical pain during local anesthetic injection using such intra-oral device. STUDY DESIGN A comparative split-mouth clinical study to evaluate clinical pain was conducted among the subjects who required bilateral local anesthetic intra-oral injections. RESULTS A total of 99 subjects participated in the study out of which 39 were female. A total of 256 local anest...