Objective The role of self-conscious emotions (SCEs) including shame, guilt, humiliation, embarrassment and pride are of increasing interest within health. Yet little is known about SCEs in the experience of chronic pain. This study explored the prevalence and experience of SCEs in chronic pain patients compared to controls and assessed the relationship between SCEs and disability in pain patie...

STUDY DESIGN A survey of pain intensity and psychological symptoms in patients with chronic neck pain after whiplash injury. OBJECTIVES To describe the pain and psychological profiles of patients with chronic whiplash. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Reports in the literature mention a constellation of symptoms associated with chronic whiplash injury but no systematic survey using objective pati...

Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) characterized by chronic neuropathic pain is a common complication of herpes zoster. We investigated the efficacy, safety and cost of treating refractory chronic neuropathic pain with 5% topical lidocaine plaster (TLP) in a female patient attending pain unit at a small county hospital. An 80-year-old female diagnosed with PHN presented with severe left intercostal a...

Music therapy has been used in multiple health care settings to reduce patient pain, anxiety, and stress. However, few available studies have investigated its effect on pain among breast cancer patients after radical mastectomy. The aim of this study was to explore the effects of music therapy on pain reduction in patients with breast cancer after radical mastectomy. This randomized controlled ...

Background. Primary dysmenorrhea is prevalent in adolescents and young women. Menstrual pain and distress causes poor school performance and physiological damage. Auricular acupressure can be used to treat these symptoms, and Internet-based systems are a flexible way of communicating and delivering the relevant information. Objective. This study investigates the effects of auricular acupressure...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of low-power light therapy on pain and disability in elderly patients with degenerative osteoarthritis of the knee. DESIGN Partially double-blinded, fully randomized trial comparing red, infrared, and placebo light emitters. PATIENTS Fifty patients with degenerative osteoarthritis of both knees were randomly assigned to three treatment groups: red (15 patie...

The present study tested the hypothesis that patients receiving epidural bupivacaine before surgery would require less morphine postoperatively and/or report less intense pain than patients receiving epidural bupivacaine after incision but before the end of surgery. Forty-two patients (ASA class I-III) scheduled for lower abdominal surgery were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 groups of equal size a...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to explore the differences in the descriptors for neuropathic and nociceptive pain in cancer patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS One hundred and eighty-six cancer patients who participated in the study completed the Greek version of the McGill Pain Questionnaire (G-MPQ) for the assessment of their pain quality. RESULTS Significant differences were found betwe...

BACKGROUND Pain is a common nonmotor symptom in Parkinson's disease (PD). The pathophysiology of pain in PD is not well understood. Pain characteristics have rarely been studied in atypical parkinsonian disorders such as Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP). AIM OF THE STUDY We aimed to evaluate pain intensity, location, and associated symptoms in atypical pa...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to compare patients with low back and neck pain with respect to kinesiophobia, pain, and quality of life. [Subjects and Methods] Three-hundred patients with low back (mean age 43.2±11 years) and 300 with neck pain (mean age 42.8±10.2 years) were included in this study. Pain severity was evaluated by using the Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire, which in...