introduction: postoperative pain is an acute pain related to size and site of operation, patient's psychologic and physiological condition, degree of manipulation and damage of tissues. pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. administration of opioids is one of the common techniques for postoperative pain management, but com...

Psychovegetal disturbances resulted in the aggravation of blood supply highest vegetal centers due to involvement pathologic process a. vertebralis and its sympathic plexus significantly affected manifestation cervical pain syndromes. Complex examination 124 patients with syndrome was performed study influence manual therapy. Clinical, neuro- orthopaedic, radiologic, miotonometric rheographic m...

Psychoimmunology, the interrelationship between the brain/mind/psyche and the immune system, is now an established area of scientific research. Based on prior investigations we hypothesized that an experienced meditator could affect her delayed hypersensitivity reaction by a psychological process. A single-case study design was employed in which the subject was skin tested weekly with varicella...

Air at high barometric pressures produces a narcotic effect on man. The changes which first appear at 3 atmospheres pressure are expressed in alterations of behavior, slowed mental activity, and impaired neuromuscular coordination. These effects, although previously observed, have not been attributed to the direct action of air or of the component gases, oxygen, nitrogen3 and carbon dioxide. Hi...

conclusions the results showed that the effect of several psychosocial, behavioral, and demographic risk factors on adolescents' smoking status. thus, design and implementation of interventions based on the results of the present study may be effective in preventing tobacco smoking among adolescents. patients and methods this cross-sectional study was performed on 810 male adolescents recruited...