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Problems associated with chronic pain are numerous indeed: they affect
our ability to sleep, work, play, and enjoy the good things in life.
Such pain can result from an accident, illness or just by the simple
process of aging. But the good news is that sufferers don't simply have
to endure this burden anymore: there are treatments available that are
extremely effective and greatly improve quality of life. This article gives a quick
overview of some of the treatment options out there and what to do.
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Why Muscles Get Sore
As people age, they begin to complain more of pains in their muscles and joints. They seem to stiffen up with age, and such commonplace activities as bending over for the morning paper can make them wince.
Such pain can grip so fiercely that they are sure it begins deep in their bones. But the real cause of stiffness and soreness lies not in the joints or bones, according to research at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, but in the muscles and connective tissues that move the joints.
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Pain Killer Addiction
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Pain Killers, also known as opioids, are commonly prescribed because of
their pain relieving properties. Many studies have shown that properly
managed medical use of pain killer compounds is safe and rarely causes
addiction. Taken exactly as prescribed, opioids can be used to manage
pain effectively.
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10 Alternative Ways To Reduce Pain During Labor
Before a woman can savor the joy of holding her baby in her arms, she normally has to go through the tormenting pains of labor. Most women experienced severe or extreme pain quoting “the worst pain of my life”, while others reported minimal pain sensation. The intensity of labor pain varies widely among different individuals, and from different pregnancies of the same individual.
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Do Sweet Smells Make Pain More Tolerable?
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Apparently so. Recent research has shown that pleasant smells can increase pain tolerance, and a recent paper by Prescott and Wilkie(1) suggests that it is specifically sweet smells that do so. I'll just skip to the experiment, and spare you the background, because the experiment contains all you need to know.
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Chronic Pain and Opiods
Chronic pain is a progressive disease of the nervous system, caused by failure of the body’s internal pain control systems. The disease is accompanied by changes in the chemical and anatomical makeup of the spinal cord. Article answers all your questions on treating this pain with opiods
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Diabetic neuropathy
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There has been a steady decline in the number of deaths of diabetic patients attributable to ketoacidosis and infection, but an alarming rise in the number of the deaths from cardiovascular and renal complications. Long-term complications are becoming more common as more people live longer with diabetes. The long-term complications of diabetes can affect almost every organ system of the body. The general categories of chronic diabetic complications are macrovascular disease, microvascular disease, and neuropathy.
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Medical and Nursing Management for Shingles
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The goals of shingles or herpes zoster management are to relieve the pain and to reduce or avoid complications. Pain is controlled with analgesics, because adequate pain control during the acute phase helps prevent persistent pain patterns. Systemic corticosteroids may be prescribed for patients older than age 50 years to reduce the incidence and duration of postherpetic neuralgia (persistent pain of the affected nerve after healing). Healing usually occurs sooner in those who have been treated with corticosteroids. Triamcinolone (Aristocort, Kenacort, Kenalog) injected subcutaneously under painful areas is effective as an anti-inflammatory agent.
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The Pain Questionnaire
The McGill Pain Questionnaire is the most widely used and popular in evaluating pain. It evaluates three major classes of word descriptions - sensory, affective, and evaluative - that patients use to specify their subjective pain experience.
It has a built-in intensity scale. Multiple reports in the literature have evaluated this method of pain measurement, and it has been used extensively in clinical evaluation and treatment trials.
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Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation
TENS at rates of 50 to 100 Hz produces analgesia that is not reversible by naloxone. Stimulation of large myelinated fibers presumably blocks nociceptive transmission at the level of the spinothalamic tract cell bodies.
TENS can produce neuromodulation by three routes: presynaptic inhibition of the spinal cord, direct inhibition on an excited, abnormally firing nerve, or restoration of afferent input.
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