Pain - Diagnosis
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Association of depression and pain interference with disease-management self-efficacy in community-dwelling individuals with spinal cord injury.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: To determine factors influencing disease-management self-efficacy in individuals with spinal cord injury. DESIGN: A cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS/PATIENTS: Forty-nine community-dwelling individuals with chronic spinal cord injury (mean ... Read more...

[Pain assessment in dementia]

6 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Patients with dementia are often unable to describe their pain because of memory deficiency and speech problems. This may lead to under-diagnosing and suboptimal pain treatment. The article summarises a thesis on development and testing ... Read more...

Elicitability of muscle cramps in different leg and foot muscles.

29 Sep 2009 To explore the efficacy of muscle motor point stimulation in eliciting muscle cramps, 11 subjects underwent eight sessions of electrical stimulation of the following muscles bilaterally: abductor hallucis flexor hallucis brevis, and both heads of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Pain - Diagnosis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Association of depression and pain interference with disease-management self-efficacy in community-dwelling individuals with spinal cord injury. 30 Oct 2009
• Painful oral ulcerations in a 51-year-old woman. 13 Oct 2009
• [Pain assessment in dementia] 6 Oct 2009
• Elicitability of muscle cramps in different leg and foot muscles. 29 Sep 2009
• Revised definition of neuropathic pain and its grading system: an open case series illustrating its use in clinical practice. 29 Sep 2009
• Assessment of neuropathic pain in primary care. 29 Sep 2009
• [Osteoporosis pain management] 9 Sep 2009
• Astroglia in medullary dorsal horn (trigeminal spinal subnucleus caudalis) are involved in trigeminal neuropathic pain mechanisms. 7 Sep 2009
• Impaired health-related quality of life in children with recurrent pain. 5 Sep 2009
• Motor unit recruitment strategies are altered during deep-tissue pain. 31 Aug 2009
• Predicting SF-6D utility scores from the Oswestry disability index and numeric rating scales for back and leg pain. 30 Aug 2009
• Chronic opioid therapy for nonmalignant pain: the patient's perspective. Part I--life before and after opioid therapy. 30 Aug 2009
• Older adults' pain communication: the effect of interruption. 30 Aug 2009
• Taking up the challenge of measuring prolonged pain in (premature) neonates: the COMFORTneo scale seems promising. 30 Aug 2009
• Clinical observations associated with proven and unproven cases in the ESCRS study of prophylaxis of postoperative endophthalmitis after cataract surgery. 30 Aug 2009
• How to measure dyspnea in acute heart failure? 30 Aug 2009
• The perioperative validity of the visual analog anxiety scale in children: a discriminant and useful instrument in routine clinical practice to optimize postoperative pain management. 30 Aug 2009
• Pediatric neurotology. 30 Jul 2009
• [Preoperative pain in urological patients scheduled for surgical intervention : Incidence, severity and chronicity] 30 Jul 2009
• Diagnosis and treatment of vulvodynia. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Pain'

Definition: An unpleasant sensation induced by noxious stimuli which are detected by NERVE ENDINGS of NOCICEPTIVE NEURONS.

Descriptor UI: D010146

Alternative terms: Pain; Pain, Burning; Burning Pain; Burning Pains; Pains, Burning; Suffering, Physical; Physical Suffering; Physical Sufferings; Sufferings, Physical; Pain, Migratory; Migratory Pain; Migratory Pains; Pains, Migratory; Pain, Radiating; Pains, Radiating; Radiating Pain; Radiating Pains; Pain, Splitting; Pains, Splitting; Splitting Pain; Splitting Pains; Ache; Aches; Pain, Crushing; Crushing Pain; Crushing Pains; Pains, Crushing;

Related Mesh Headings: Analgesia; Pain Insensitivity, Congenital; Analgesics; Hyperalgesia; Palliative Care;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.597.617; C23.888.592.612; C23.888.646; F02.830.816.444; G11.561.600.810.444;

Technical Notes: general; prefer specific precoordinated locational pain terms, like ABDOMINAL PAIN; CHEST PAIN, etc.; / diag: consider also PAIN MEASUREMENT but PAIN / diag is probably PAIN / etiol; / ther: consider also PALLIATIVE CARE ( = pain relief without cure); / physiopathol: PAIN THRESHOLD is also available; chronic pain = PAIN (IM) + CHRONIC DISEASE (NIM): do not equate with PAIN, INTRACTABLE; congenital absence of pain = PAIN INSENSITIVITY, CONGENITAL