Introduction: Low back pain is a common complaint in different communities . Low back pain has negative effects on different aspects of the life. Different methods has been used for reduction effects. Foot reflexology causes pain reduction. This study has been conducted to examines effect of foot reflexology on pain intensity in patients with low back pain.   methods: in this quasi- experimen...

Bacground and Objective: Foot orthoses are a common intervention for patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome but, limited information is available in the effects of foot orthoses on knee pain and function of athletes with patellofemoral pain syndrome. The aim of our study was to determinate the effects of foot orthoses on reducing pain and increasing function of athletes with patellofemoral ...

Background: Pain reduction is one of the main interventions in nursing care of cancer patient and foot massage is one of the complementary measures that decreases pain intensity and provides relaxation for patient. Objective: To determine the effect of foot massage on relaxation and pain intensity in hospitalized women with cancer. Design: This was a cross over clinical trial study in which eac...

Aims and Background: One of the problems that patients with coronary artery bypass surgery encounter is pain that can have undesirable consequences. This research aims to investigate the effects of foot reflexology massage on pain in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery. Materials and methods: This clinical trial was performed on 52 patients after coronary artery bypass surgery. D...

Introduction: Pain is a common phenomenon after all surgical operation. Acute and unrelieved pain can cause physical and mental complications, delayed recovery and prolonged hospitalization. Although using analgesia is usual to relieve pain, its complication, unavailability, necessity of taking less drug, especially analgesia, and also ineffectiveness of using analgesia alone, to relieve pain h...