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Showing 1 to 20 of 3361 for “"Pain"”.
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Hippocratic Pain
… dissertation assesses the manifold functions of pain in the practice of Hippocratic medicine and examines the interpenetration of pain and Hippocratic theories of the body. Chapter One contrasts the Hippocratic view of pain with the modern understanding of the phenomenon. While the experience of …
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Effects of pain and fear stimulus intensity levels on pain responding in chronic pain patients
Fear has been found to increase and decrease pain responding in various contexts, and the effects of fear and pain stimulus intensity levels on pain responding have not been examined. Forty chronic pain patients were exposed to an algometer pressure pain device which stimulated different fingers; …
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The Association among Pain, Pain Coping and Quality of life of Community- Dwelling Elderly with Chronic Pain
… VAS)를 사용하여 통증정도, Brown과 Nicassio(1987)가 개발한 PMI(Pain Management Inventory)를 박춘자(1995)가 번역·역 번역한 통증대처와 세계보건기구가 개발한 World Health Quality of Life Assessment Instrument-100(WHOQOL-100)을 기초로 민성길 등(2000)이 수정한 한국판 WHOQOL –BREF 삶의 질 도구를 사용하였으며, 수집된 자료는 SPSS/WIN 22.0 프로그램을 이용하여 one-way ANOVA, independent …
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Psychological Predictors of Pain and Pain-related Outcomes in Athletes
… of mental toughness (i.e., optimism, resilience, pain-specific self-efficacy, and attentional control), and pain through a literature review and four studies. The literature review suggested that a relationship between mental toughness and pain existed; however, the number of studies directly …
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Nursing Students' Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Pain and Pain Management
Pain is a universal human experience and is a primary reason people seek health care; however, undertreatment of pain has been reported in the literature as a significant clinical problem for more than three decades. Researchers have concluded that nurses have inadequate knowledge of pain …
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The effect of pain site on the experience of pain
… to male and female experiences of chronic pain is reviewed. Part two is an empirical paper which uses IPA methodology to explore theinfluence of pain site on the female experience of chronic pain. Part three comprises the appendices
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Making Sense of Pain: A Pluralist Remedy for Pain Eliminativism
In this dissertation, I argue that pain is a sense. This argument is made against pain eliminativism, a position which argues that pain is no longer a meaningful scientific concept and that it should be removed from scientific and philosophical investigations. I make this sensorial argument by …
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Emotional Pain: The Effect of Clinical Treatment on Perceived Physical Pain
… that thesuffering of both physical and emotional pain plays a role in the underlying risk factorsfor addiction. This research attempted to discover a correlation between the reduction ofemotional pain and the subsequent lowering of perceived physical pain in individualsseeking treatment for …
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Pain, Human Redemption, and Medicine: James Hinton's Theological Appropriation of Pain
Hinton's theology of pain posits that an individual's suffering contributes to God's redemptive work in the world. This dissertation explores Hinton's theological appropriation of pain in four ways. First, we examine Hinton's life and writings to establish his personal interest about pain. Factors …
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Factors affecting the Pain & Disability of the Low back pain patients
… research to identify the factors affecting the pain & disability of the low back pain patients. The subject of research is collected from 84 patients who were proved the disease through MRI(magnetic resonance image)at the neurosurgery unit at A university Hospitals in S city, Korea, and were …
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Cold pressor pain and psychophysiological activation in high and low pain catastrophizers
Pain catastrophizing is a robust predictor of heightened pain report. However, theoretical models addressing mechanisms of catastrophizing are lacking. The purpose of this study was to examine whether high and low catastrophizers manifest differential psychophysiological arousal patterns in an …
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Chronic Pain Beyond Measure: E-Health and the Politics of Pain Care
This is a project about chronic pain. It explores the codes, contracts, and covenants that patients living with chronic pain enter as they try to feel better. What is unique about this study of chronic pain is the focus on e-health: the use of digital technologies in health. Therefore, more …
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Effect of cannabinoids on pain-stimulated and pain-depressed behavior in rats
… in many preclinical models of acute and chronic pain. In contrast, cannabinoids produce inconsistent analgesia in humans, showing little or no efficacy in treating acute pain, with modest efficacy in treating chronic inflammatory pain. This discrepancy may reflect an overreliance on preclinical …
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Improving Pain Reassessment within One Hour Following the Administration of Pain Medication
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Pain has been identified as the main reason why patients go to the hospital and are hospitalized. Pain reassessment following administration of pain medication is vital to pain management. This project was conducted in a 24-bed stand-alone inpatient psychiatric facility in an …
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Spotting pain in the brain. Towards a useful animal model of pain
Current models of pain in conscious animals usually scores nocifensive responses. However, it is still unclear to what extent these responses are related to, for instance, the sensory discriminative or affective aspects of pain. This touches upon an intriguing question on how the nervous system …
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Neurophysiological Differences in Pain Reactivity: Why Some People are Tolerant to Pain
Pain is a complex, ubiquitous phenomenon that can be debilitating and costly. Although it is well known that some individuals can easily tolerate pain while others are more intolerant to pain, little is known of the neurophysiological bases of these differences. Because differences in sensory …
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Psychoneuroimmunology and Chronic Pain
<p>There is increasing evidence linking chronic pain to altered levels of central nervous system (CNS) inflammation and increased levels of perceived pain, anxiety, depression and sleep disturbance. However the inflammatory molecules responsible for physiologic and psychological components of …
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Mechanisms Underlying Chronic Pain
Based on duration, pain is categorized as acute and chronic pain. Acute pain is a short-term phenomenon that resolves after the noxious stimulus is removed or the injury is healed. On the other hand, chronic pain is a long-lasting debilitating condition. In a substantial number of cases, acute pain …
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The Pain of Astronomy
This autobiographical collection of poetry discusses the affect of trauma on the human psyche, the cyclical nature of generational flaws, and the struggle of recovery. A significant point of tragedy revealed is rooted in a well-documented, American triple-homicide case often referred to as the West …
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