pain relief by soaking in hot water can be used for women who want to birth their child with minimal medical intervention . this achieved in new division of labor in the hinchinbroke hospital in september 1983 . in this part, control of childbirth pain has done with minimal medical intervention . if consultation of maternity is necessary, have be done in this hospital. midwives and doctors in t...

BACKGROUND Continuous intrathecal labor analgesia produces rapid analgesia or anesthesia and allows substantial flexibility in medication choice. The US Food and Drug Administration, in 1992, removed intrathecal microcatheters (27-32 gauge) from clinical use after reports of neurologic injury in nonobstetric patients. This study examined the safety and efficacy of a 28-gauge intrathecal cathete...

OBJECTIVE To educate the obstetrics community regarding postpartum labral tears, an avoidable and treatable potential complication of pregnancy in the postpartum period. METHODS From 2009 to 2011, 10 women presented to the second author's office with persistent hip pain that had begun during pregnancy or during delivery. These 10 postpartum women presented with signs and symptoms of labral te...

Cesarean delivery rates continue to increase, and surgery is associated with chronic pain, often co-existing with depression. Also, acute pain in the days after surgery is a strong predictor of chronic pain. Here we tested if mode of delivery or acute pain played a role in persistent pain and depression after childbirth. In this multicenter, prospective, longitudinal cohort study, 1288 women ho...

objective: renal colic is a common cause of emergency room visits. due to the spontaneous passage of more than 90% of kidney stones, treatment in the emergency department (ed) is limited to pain control. analgesics currently used are selected based on physician experiences and various theories from different sources. the aim of this study was to compare the common drugs (pethidine and diclofena...

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BACKGROUND In a previous randomised controlled trial we showed that acupuncture with a combination of manual- and electrical stimulation (EA) did not affect the level of pain, as compared with acupuncture with manual stimulation (MA) and standard care (SC), but reduced the need for other forms of pain relief, including epidural analgesia. To dismiss an under-treatment of pain in the trial, we d...

OBJECTIVE To investigate possible differences in operative delivery rate among low-risk women, randomised to an alongside midwifery-led unit or to standard obstetric units within the same hospital. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. SETTING Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Østfold Hospital Trust, Tromsø, Norway. POPULATION A total of 1111 women assessed to be at low risk at onse...

INTRODUCTION There is limited knowledge regarding the symptom profile of genito-pelvic pain in pregnancy and postpartum, and potential psychosocial predictors of this pain. Prior studies have reported a positive association between prepregnancy pain and postpartum genito-pelvic pain. Greater fear avoidance has been associated with increased genital pain intensity in women, unrelated to childbir...