BACKGROUND Pain is one of the side effects of episiotomy. The virtual reality (VR) is a non-pharmacological method for pain relief. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of using video glasses on pain reduction in primiparity women during episiotomy repair. METHODS This clinical trial was conducted on 30 primiparous parturient women having labor at Omolbanin Hospital (Mashhad,...

Social network as a moderator between trauma exposure and post-trauma symptomatology was studied. Two samples--relief workers and UN soldiers--were assessed on trauma exposure, social network and three dependent measures related to post-trauma reactions. Regression analysis and interaction plots were used to determine the presence of interaction effects between trauma exposure and social networ...

conclusions prf of the trigeminal ganglion should be further evaluated as an alternative treatment method for tn. results the percentages of patients who showed excellent pain relief (≥ 80% pain relief) at 2, 6, and 12 months were 73.5% (25/34), 61.8% (21/34), and 55.9% (19/34), respectively. the percentages of patients showing satisfactory pain relief (50–80% pain relief) at 2, 6, and 12 month...

Humanitarian relief work is a growing field characterized by ongoing exposure to primary and secondary trauma, which has implications for workers' occupational mental health. This paper reviews and summarizes research to date on mental health effects of relief work. Twelve studies on relief workers and 5 studies on organizations that employ relief workers are examined to determine whether relie...

et al. Imaginal exposure alone and imaginal exposure with cognitive restructuring in treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. Q For people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), does cognitive restructuring with prolonged imaginal exposure lead to greater symptom relief than imaginal exposure alone? METHODS Design: Randomised controlled trial.

CONGENITAL valvular aortic stenosis and congenital localized subvalvular aortic stenosis are commonly encountered, easily recognized at operation, and relieved by standard surgical technics. Idiopathic diffuse subvalvular aortic stenosis is uncommon and can be overlooked at operation. Its relief by indirect methods has been proposed by some because of the problems inherent in its exposure in di...

introduction : to evaluate the clinical and radiographic outcomes of pulpotomy treatment with mineral trioxide aggregate (mta) in symptomatic mature permanent teeth with carious exposure. materials and methods: ten patients aged 27-54 years presented with 11 symptomatic permanent teeth ( n =11). each offending carious tooth was clinically and radiographically determined. we removed caries as co...