BACKGROUND Chronic pain is a common and frequently disabling problem in older adults. Clinical guidelines emphasize the need to use multimodal therapies to manage persistent pain in this population. Pain self-management training is a multimodal therapy that has been found to be effective in young to middle-aged adult samples. This training includes education about pain as well as instruction an...

Nurses lack adequate pain management knowledge, which can result in poorly managed postsurgical pain. This study aimed to develop, implement, and evaluate pain management education and operational guidelines to improve nursing knowledge and pain management. This quality improvement project employed convenience samples of surgical oncology nurses and postoperative patients. The intervention invo...

Having just spent the early years of the 21st century focusing on what Congress declared as the Decade of Pain Control and Research, the health care community has made substantial progress in pain management. Working in collaboration with its partners in the Pain Care Coalition, the American Pain Society has been advocating for the passage of the National Pain Care Policy Act, which calls for n...

Considering the significance of continuous medical education and its role in the quality of the presented health and treatment services, and the holding of more than 3000 of such programs, this study was carried out to determine the effect of continuous medical educational program regarding renal stones during the years 1997-1998. In this study, the educational trial strategy was carried out o...

Pain therapy is an important aspect of medical practice for patients of all ages, to optimize care, to obtain an adequate quality of life and to improve their general conditions. Pain is among the most prevalent symptoms experienced by patients undergoing surgery. The success of postoperative pain therapy depends on the ability of the clinician to assess the presenting problems, identify and ev...

proper pain management, particularly postoperative pain management, is a major concern for clinicians as well as for patients undergoing surgery. although many advances have been made in the field of pain management, particularly during the past decades, not all patients achieve complete relief from postoperative pain. in this paper, we have emphasized the importance of postoperative analgesia ...

STUDY DESIGN A controlled and retrospective study of 144 chronic low back pain patients to evaluate the effectiveness of an intensive functional restoration program in France. OBJECTIVE Evaluating the efficiency of an intensive, dynamic and multidisciplinary functional restoration program in patients with chronic low back pain (LBP), during 6 and 12 months follow up. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND D...

background:   patellofemoral pain syndrome (pfps) is defined as pain surrounding the patella when sitting with bent knees for prolonged periods of time or when performing activities like ascending or descending stairs, squatting or   athletic activities. patella dislocation is not included in pfps.     purpose:   this review analyzes the evidence based conservative management of pfps.   methods...

conclusions in this study, intravenous paracetamol or diclofenac suppositories, administered for postgastrectomy pain control, decreased morphine consumption by almost 32% and also improved alertness. nevertheless, the amount of opioids did not affect the incidence of complications. background major surgical procedures, such as gastrectomy, result in extensive postoperative pain, which can lead...