aim and background: it has since long been known that there is strong relation between   psychological status and functional gastrointestinal disorders (fgid). however, until recently, the nature of this putative relationship was unclear due to a lack of non-invasive methods to investigate the neurobiological mechanisms underlying this relationship.  functional brain imaging has provided a meth...

The annual prevalence and incidence of people consulting for a shoulder condition is about 2.4% in the UK [1]. Shoulder pain in the population is also a longterm disabling symptom with about 50% complaining of symptoms 3 years after onset[2]. Common conditions that can result in chronic shoulder pain include rotator cuff disorders, frozen shoulder, shoulder instability, and shoulder arthritis. ...

Interviews were conducted with 265 orthopedic and chronic pain patients, using a structured diagnostic instrument (ADDIS/SUDDS) concerning their use of analgesics. Twenty-two percent of the patients met criteria for analgesic use disorders in accordance with DSM-III-R; 18.5% fulfilled DSM-IV criteria. Dextropropoxyphene was the most common analgesic prescribed and was used by 47% of the patient...

The study aims to describe osteoarticular and musculoskeletal disorders, chronic pain, quality of life (QOL) physical activity level (PAL) distributed by age group gender in the elderly. design was quantitative, descriptive cross-sectional. non-probabilistic sample, for convenience, comprised 101 elderly people, over 60 years old, who regularly participate water aerobics activities municipality...

B. Know that women are at greater risk for several chronic painful disorders, including temporomandibular disorders, fibromyalgia, migraine headache, interstitial cystitis, joint pain, irritable bowel syndrome, complex regional pain syndrome, and trigeminal neuralgia (Unruh 1996; Jones and Nyberg 1997; LeResche 1999; Buckwalter and Lappin 2000; Dao and LeResche 2000). Be aware that these differ...

Background. Pain is one of the most common secondary symptoms seen in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI). Approximately 65 to 85 % all SCI complaining pain, a third having severe/excruciating pain. Despite large number studies, some aspects that are fundamental for choice pain therapy remain practically unexplored. The purpose our study was determine types, subtypes, and intensity subaxial ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this literature systematic review was to evaluate the possible association between malocclusions, orthodontic treatment and development of temporomandibular disorders. MATERIAL AND METHODS A search was carried out on PubMed-Medline database from January 2000 to August 2013 using the keywords "orthodontics and temporomandibular disorders", "orthodontics and facial pain" a...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE There is limited knowledge about the prevalence of pain and its relation to comorbidities, medication, and certain lifestyle factors in older adults. To address this limitation, this cross-sectional study examined the spreading of pain on the body in a sample of 6611 subjects ≥65 years old (mean age = 75.0 years; standard deviation [SD] = 7.7) living in southeastern Swe...

According to the data published in The Lancet, in 2010 musculoskeletal disorders were the cause of nearly 166 million years lived with disability (YLDs), with neck and low back pain accounting for 69.9% of the total. In Poland, in 2014 low back pain was self-reported by 28.4% of women and 21.2% of men aged 15 years and over, neck pain by 21% of women and 13% of men, and middle back pain by 19% ...

Orofacial Pain is the field of dentistry devoted to the diagnosis and management of chronic, complex, facial pain and oromotor disorders. This specialty in dentistry has developed over a number of years out of the need for better understanding of a group of patients who somehow were not clearly suffering from dental pain disorders, but still did not seem to have a clearly defined medical proble...