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Showing 1 to 20 of 106 for “"pain relief"”.
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Nitrous Oxide as Pain Relief for Women in Labor
… frightening and anxious time in a woman’s life. Pain is considered a normal, natural and expected part of childbirth and for that reason, it is vitally important to provide women access to different approaches to pain management. Healthcare professionals must be aware of all the options available …
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Encoding and Decoding of Pain Relief in the Human Brain
The studies in this thesis explored how pain and its relief are represented in the human brain. Pain and relief are important survival signals that motivate escape from danger and search for safety, however, they are often evaluated by subjective descriptions only. Studying how humans learn and …
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Comparison of Local Anesthetic Ointment to Warm Pack therapy for Pain relief during arteriovenous fistula puncture in Hemodialysis patients
본 연구는 혈액투석 환자의 동․정맥루 천자 시 국소마취제 연고와 온요법의 통증완화 효과를 비교 확인하기 위한 유사실험 연구이다. 연구대상은 경기도 소재 C 대학병원 인공신장실에서 혈액투석 시 동․정맥루 천자를 시행하는 말기신부전 환자로 아래 선정기준에 합당한 40명을 연구대상으로 편의표출 하였다. 그중 타 병원으로의 전원 3명, 혈관폐쇄로 중심정맥도관 삽입한 2명이 중도 탈락하여 35명만을 최종 분석 대상으로 하였다. 자료수집기간은 2010년 5월 3일부터 6월 5일까지이며 중재 전 동․정맥루 천자 시 통증점수와 생리적 지표를 …
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Influencing factors on the prognosis of arthrocentesis
… of recovering mouth opening limitation and pain relief. Prognosis of arthrocentesis was evaluated one month after the operation. Improvement on mouth opening limitation was defined as an increase from below 30mm (MOL ) to above 40mm (MOL ), and pain relief was defined as when a group with …
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Automated Thermo-mechanical Therapy for Immediate Relief in Chronic Non-Specific Lower Back Pain (cNSLBP): A Randomized Controlled Trial
… Chronic non-specific lower back pain (cNSLBP) is a prevalent and disabling condition, imposing a substantial socioeconomic burden due to high healthcare costs and productivity losses, with limited accessible and effective long-term treatment options. Automated Thermo-mechanical …
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How To Provide Effective Pain Management After Cardiac Surgery In The Geriatric Patient
… indicated that 82% of cardiac patients reported pain as the most common traumatic memory of their ICU stay. Pain is an important stressor in critical care settings. The lack of effective postoperative pain management impedes early mobilization and sufficient sleep, leads to postoperative …
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Monitoring Dissolution of Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Using Infrared Spectroscopy
… These brands included Bayer Aleve ®, CVS All Day Pain Relief and Walgreens All Day Pain Relief. The active and inactive ingredients were the same yet the size and shape of the tablets differ among the three brands. S-naproxen was extracted from the tablets and evaluated by GC-MS to determine the …
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An assessment of the experience of childbirth in women delivering at the University teaching hospital, Lusaka
… of the factors that affect the birth experience, pain relief, length of labour, whether labour is thought to be straightforward or difficult, whether the staff attitude was perceived positively or negatively, significantly affected the birth experience. Primiparas tended to perceive their labours …
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An assessment of the experience of childbirth in women delivering at the University teaching hospital, Lusaka
… of the factors that affect the birth experience, pain relief, length of labour, whether labour is thought to be straightforward or difficult, whether the staff attitude was perceived positively or negatively, significantly affected the birth experience. Primiparas tended to perceive their labours …
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An evaluation of the use and efficacy of analgesics in the management of chronic pain in the community.
… of analgesics in the management of chronic pain in the community and to investigate the role of the pharmacist in optimising health outcomes relating to chronic pain by assessing the effect of pharmacist intervention on pain control and activities of life. Cluster samples of patients with …
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Assessment and improvement of access and quality in lower gastrointestinal endoscopy
… of the endoscopist and the degree of discomfort/ pain experienced by the patient. This study has also shown that there are no differences between medical, nurse and non-medical endoscopists in terms of patient satisfaction with lower gastrointestinal endoscopy. Based on this understanding of …
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MRGX1-TRPAI in inflammatory pain signalling
Painful stimuli are detected at the peripheral terminals of specialised primary sensory neurons known as nociceptors. Nociceptors detect noxious (painful) stimuli to evoke pain sensation via the activation of Transient Receptor Potential Ankyrin 1 (TRPA1). TRPA1 activity can be modulated by …
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Locus of Control Orientation and Level of Pain in Postsurgical Patients
… accounted for differences in perception of pain relief in persons who had abdominal surgery and received epidural analgesia as a method to control acute pain postoperatively. Forty subjects who met the study criteria responded to the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control questionnaire. …
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The Neural and Psychological Constituents of Placebo and Distraction
… have long been used clinically to relieve pain. The present series of experiments examined the neural and cognitive processes that constitute these two psychological forms of analgesia. Study 1 provides evidence that overlapping cognitive resources are involved in both pain and executive …
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Behavioral Pharmacological Analysis of Deep Brain Stimulation Following Nerve Injury
Treatment of neuropathic pain remains a major unmet public health problem. Serious concerns arise over misuse of prescription opioids in chronic pain patients, a drug class representing the fastest growing substance abuse problem in the United States. Ascending pain pathways overlap significantly …
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Disbudding of dairy goat kids: Refining protocols to reduce or eliminate pain
… dairy goat kids to eliminate or reduce pain. Behavioural and physiological measures were used to evaluate: (1) pain associated with four disbudding methods, and (2) the effect of pain mitigation on cautery disbudded goat kids. Caustic paste and cryosurgical disbudding and clove oil …
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Pain alleviating effects of mesenchymal stem/stromal cells and derived extracellular vesicles in osteoarthritis
… old. It is characterised by debilitating joint pain and stiffness that only partially correlates with joint structural damage. Clinically used OA treatments fail to halt disease progression and yield limited pain relief. During the search for new therapies for OA, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) …
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A comparison of spinal anaesthesia with and without transversus abdominis plane block in patients undergoing elective caesarean section at Windhoek Hospital Complex
Background: Pain is a known outcome complication of surgery in the post-operative period, especially after Caesarean section. Lack of pain relief postoperatively also poses great risks for patients’ health. The combination of Transversus Abdominis Plane (TAP) block with spinal anaesthesia is …
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Hydrotherapy: The Effects on Length of Labor and Analgesia Use in Labor for the Nulliparous Woman
… who chose to use hydrotherapy as a means of pain relief/relaxation during the first stage of labor. The control group included those who chose not to use hydrotherapy as an intervention for pain relief/relaxation during the first stage of labor. Evaluation of cervical dilation was checked …
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