Segmental stabilizing exercises and low back pain: What is the evidence? [PDF]
Study design: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials. Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of segmental stabilizing exercises for acute, subacute and chronic low back pain with regard to pain, recurrence of pain, disability and ...
Bie, Rob de+5 more
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Medically Unexplained Pain Is Not Caused by Psychopathology
This paper highlights Professor Ronald Melzack's theoretical contributions to the understanding of psychological factors in pain. His work continues to have profound influences on pain theory, research, management and public policy.
Lucia Gagliese, Joel Katz
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Noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation as acute therapy for migraine. The randomized PRESTO study [PDF]
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation (nVNS; gammaCore; electroCore, LLC, Basking Ridge, NJ) for the acute treatment of migraine in a multicenter, double-blind, randomized, sham-controlled ...
Ambrosini, Anna+12 more
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Objective This study aimed to compare the heart rate response to stress during airway intubations in clinical practice and a simulated environment. Methods Twenty-five critical care registrars participated in the study over a 3-month period.
Jackson Ji+7 more
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Cornual Abscess Rupture: A Rare Etiology of Acute Abdomen [PDF]
Ruptured cornual abscess or pyometra can resemble other more common causes of acute abdomen, including appendicitis, diverticulitis, tubo-ovarian abscess, and perforated viscus.
Brar, Bobby+4 more
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Treatments for Acute Pain: A Systematic Review
Objectives. To evaluate the effectiveness and comparative effectiveness of opioid, nonopioid pharmacologic, and nonpharmacologic therapy in patients with specific types of acute pain, including effects on pain, function, quality of life, adverse events ...
R. Chou+14 more
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Administration of Nebulized Ketamine for Managing Acute Pain in the Emergency Department: A Case Series [PDF]
Ketamine administration in sub-dissociative doses in the emergency department (ED) results in effective pain relief in patients with acute traumatic and non-traumatic pain, chronic pain, and opioid-tolerant pain.
Butt, Mahlaqa+5 more
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Obstructive sleep apnea as an independent predictor of postoperative delirium and pain: Protocol for an observational study of a surgical cohort [version 2; referees: 2 approved] [PDF]
Introduction: Postoperative delirium and pain are common complications in adults, and are difficult both to prevent and treat. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is prevalent in surgical patients, and has been suggested to be a risk factor for postoperative ...
Arrington, Brianna+7 more
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Pain threshold and pain tolerance as predictors of acute postoperative pain: Pain threshold and pain tolerance [PDF]
Introduction Acute postoperative pain can lead to various complications, affecting cardiovascular, respiratory , gastrointestinal, and renal systems, increases the costs of treatment and affects patient satisfaction.
Radovanović Nemanja+2 more
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Linking pain and the body: neural correlates of visually induced analgesia [PDF]
The visual context of seeing the body can reduce the experience of acute pain, producing a multisensory analgesia. Here we investigated the neural correlates of this “visually induced analgesia” using fMRI.
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