abstract   background: osteoarthritis (oa) is the most common joint disease occuring after middle age. because of the high mobility of the neck, oa is common in the cervical spine. the purpose of this study was to determine and compare the effects of intermittent traction on patients with mild and moderate cervical oa. therefore, 32 patients with cervical oa were recruited.   methods: aclinical...

BACKGROUND Numerical rating scales (NRS), and verbal rating scales (VRS) showed to be reliable and valid tools for subjective cancer pain measurement, but no one of them consistently proved to be superior to the other. Aim of the present study is to compare NRS and VRS performance in assessing breakthrough or episodic pain (BP-EP) exacerbations. METHODS In a cross sectional multicentre study ...

Tonsillectomy is one of the most common surgical procedures for otolaryngologists. Although tonsillectomy procedures are common, like any surgical procedure, there are post-operative complaints and complications. The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the pattern of post-operative pain in tonsillectomy using the harmonic scalpel (HS). 43 patients were entered into this study (13 me...

Objectives Switzerland has optimal conditions for research of language-based cultural influences on low back pain (LBP). The aim of this study was to compare LBP treatment outcomes after chiropractic care between patients from the German- and French-speaking regions of Switzerland. Methods Baseline Numeric Rating Scale for pain (NRS), demographic, and Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) data were...

OBJECTIVE To assess internal and external responsiveness of the Activity of Daily Living Scale of the Knee Outcome Survey and Numeric Pain Rating Scale on patients with patellofemoral pain. DESIGN One group pre-post design. SUBJECTS A total of 60 individuals with patellofemoral pain (33 women; mean age 29.9 (standard deviation 9.6) years). METHODS The Activity of Daily Living Scale and th...

The most commonly used tool for self-report of pruritus intensity is the visual analogue scale (VAS). Similar tools are the numerical rating scale (NRS) and verbal rating scale (VRS). In the present study, initiated by the International Forum for the Study of Itch assessing reliability of these tools, 471 randomly selected patients with chronic itch (200 males, 271 females, mean age 58.44 years...

conclusions the pil epidural injection is as effective as tf epidural injection in improving pain and functional status, in patients with chronic lumbosacral low back pain, due to disc degeneration. results effective pain relief [numeric rating scale (nrs) < 3] was observed in 77.3% (95% ci: 67‒90.5%) of patients in pil group and 74.2% (95% ci: 62.4 - 89.4%) of patients in the tf group (p = 0.3...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the management of postoperative pain at the Niamey National Hospital. METHODS A prospective study was conducted in the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care at the Niamey National Hospital from March to June, 2009. Data collected included age, sex, literacy, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status classification, ty...

BACKGROUND Some of the excitatory neurotransmitters including glutamate have been suggested to be involved in headache pathophysiology. To our knowledge, there is a lack of publication about flunarizine efficacy in chronic tension-type headache (CTTH) treatments and the roles of glutamate in CTTH pathophysiology. AIM This study aimed to investigate the flunarizine effect on serum levels of gl...