Palliative Care

Palliative care is the active holistic care of patients with advanced progressive illness. Management of pain and other symptoms and provision of psychological, social and spiritual support is param...

Health IT Information Technology

Why Health IT?   Health information technology (Health IT) makes it possible for health care providers to better manage patient care through secure use and sharing of health information - e...

Pain

Pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in term...

Healthcare

Health care (or healthcare) is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in...

Fibromyalgia

FMS (fibromyalgia syndrome) is a widespread idiopathic musculoskeletal pain and fatigue disorder, which is chronic. The pain comes from connective tissues, such as muscles, tendons, and ligaments, b...

Links Explored Between Physical And Emotional Pain Relief

Though we all desire relief - from stress, work, or pain - little is known about the specific emotions underlying relief. New research from the Association for Psychological Science explores the psych...

Research explores links between physical and emotional pain relief

(Association for Psychological Science) Though we all desire relief -- from stress, work, or pain -- little is known about the specific emotions underlying relief. New research explores the psychologi...

Topical NSAIDs provide relief from arthritis pain

For those suffering from osteoarthritis of the knees or hands, applying topical non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)—in the form of creams, gels and patches—can bring weeks of pain relie...

Magnetic necklace for pain relief announced by Superior Magnetics

Louisville, Kentucky (PRWEB) June 09, 2013 Pain Free Living - SuperiorMagnetics.com, an innovative leader in alternative pain relief, announced a new magnetic necklace for pain relief. This new mag...

Inhaled pain relief in early labor is safe and effective, study suggests

Inhaled pain relief appears to be effective in reducing pain intensity and in giving pain relief in the first stage of labour, say researchers. These conclusions came from a systematic review that dre...

Magnetic Necklace Relieves Pain Announced Pain Free Living

Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN (PRWEB) June 16, 2013 Pain Free Living - SuperiorMagnetics.com an innovative leader in alternative pain relief announces new magnetic necklace for pain relief caused by h...

Access to opioid analgesics and pain relief for patients with cancer

Patients with cancer frequently experience pain, which is considered to be the most-common and feared symptom of the disease. In most patients, this pain can be successfully relieved with judicious us...

A Magnetic Bracelet for Sports Pain Relief Released by Pain Free Living

Indianapolis, Indiana (PRWEB) May 10, 2013 Pain Free Living web: SuperiorMagnetics.com, an innovative leader in developing pain relief products announced the release of a magnetic bracelet for sp...

Striving to respond to palliative care patients' pain at home: a puzzle for family caregivers.

Purpose/Objectives: To describe the types of pain patients in palliative care at home experience and how family caregivers assess them and intervene.Research Approach: Qualitative using grounded theor...

Epidemiology of prehospital pain: an opportunity for improvement.

This retrospective, electronic patient care record review examined a consecutive sample of patients presenting with pain to the metropolitan region of Ambulance Victoria over a period of 12 months in...

Labour pain acceptance and personal control in pain relief in two maternity care models: a cross-national comparison of Belgium and the Netherlands.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: A cross-national comparison of Belgian and Dutch childbearing women allows us to gain insight into the relative importance of pain acceptance and personal control in pain relief...

Reassessment of neuropathic pain in light of its revised definition: Possible implications and consequences.

Pain relief after Frey's procedure for chronic pancreatitis.

BACKGROUND:: Few studies have addressed long-term pain relief after Frey's procedure (local head resection with lateral pancreaticojejunostomy, LR-LPJ) for chronic pancreatitis. This retrospective stu...