background : pain is a common phenomenon after surgery. cardiac surgeries are no exception and patients generally experience acute pain after these surgeries. inadequate pain management after cardiac surgery predisposes patients to many complications. therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the effects of listening to preferred music on pain intensity after open heart surgery. methods...

background and aims: pain diagnosis is a frustrating effort especially due to the barriers in communication with patients in low level of consciousness therefore this study ,aimed at the evaluation of  utilizing bps by nurses for patients who are unable to express their pain because of their low level of consciousness, has been designed. materials and methods: this research is a semi-empirical ...

Introduction: Neuropathic pain is a chronic pain that occurs as an injury to neuronal cells and abnormality in nervous and immune systems function. Also diabetic neuropathy diseases accompany with variety of pain syndromes such as allodynia and hyperalgesia. Thus, the aim of the present study was to investigate the chronic effects of incremental activity in the form of endurance training o...

background one of the strategies for a good outcome and pain free childbearing is to design the delivery room. objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of snoezelen room on childbearing outcome such as pain intensity, duration of labor, and perinea status in nulliparous women. patients and methods this study was a randomized controlled clinical trial consists of 100 childbea...

background : labor pain relief has been considered since many years ago. heat as a non pharmacological method of pain relief helps reducing the pain intensity and increases the pain consistency. the aim of the study was to determine the effect of the heat therapy on the labor pain in primigravida women. methods : in this clinical trial study, 64 low risk nulliparous women were randomly divided ...