Feel the Pain

Radicular Pain Radicular pain is a type of pain that spreads from your back or neck along a spinal nerve. Spinal nerves are nerves that leave the spinal cord and go to the muscles. Radicular pain occurs when one of these nerves becomes irritated or compressed. Radicular pain is sometimes called radiculopathy, radiculitis, or a pinched nerve. When you have this type of pain, you may also have weakness, numbness, or tingling in the area of the body supplied by the nerve. The pain may feel sharp…

Euthanasia is one of the biggest and endless controversies of legal ethics, health care and religion of this decade, since the society is still intolerant about these issues regardless of the advantages that this act may bring. Yet, according to Lewis and Black (2013), “[c]ountries like Netherland, Belgium and Switzerland practice euthanasia but strictly follows a criterion that applies to an individual’s request for assisted dying” (p. 865). Legalization of euthanasia does not mean that it…

Assisted suicide is a trap that America is falling into. Many people who use assisted suicide to die do so because they feel they are not perfect. This idea is a serious problem that many people refuse to acknowledge today. Though many people feel assisted suicide should be legal, I believe assisted suicide should not be legal because in most cases the patient isn’t feeling any physical pain, it doesn’t take into account people who cannot speak for themselves, and it goes against American…

“Hooked on a Myth”, Victoria Braithwaite says Are Nonhuman animals Conscious? I agree with her argument that fish feel pain and that fish are conscious, but I feel like she could’ve taken the argument a lot further than what she did. She talks about how fish feel pain and she uses the evidence of how they injected bee venom under the skin of the trout . When the fish started to feel the bee venom their gills beat faster, they rub the affected area on the walls of their tank, and lose interest…

pillow under the calves to elevate the heels (Perry & Potter, 2014, 442). Decrease pain level from 6 to 3 if possible in 2 hours post medication. ???? Risk for Injury Nursing Interventions Rationale Goals and Outcomes Evaluation Provide assistance for ambulation Immobility and inactivity reduces patient’s ability or desire to independently change position. Poor sensory perception decreases patient’s ability to feel the sensation of pressure or discomfort (Perry & Potter, 2014, 442). Patient…

accident forces your neck backwards or forwards quickly. Although many people just brush off such an injury, serious damage can occur. The whipping action jerks the cervical spine out of alignment, which can cause immense pain after a period of time. If you feel stiff, sore, pain in the neck area, or limited mobility, it is strongly advised to see a chiropractor. These symptoms can lead to recurring headaches and migraines, difficulty focusing on daily tasks, and difficulty sleeping.…

get back pain relief, one can visit a reflexologist or apply treatment to their own foot.…

DOI: 2/14/2014. The patient is a 54-year-old female janitor who sustained a work-related injury to her back and right arm from a slip and fall on snow and ice. As per OMNI, she was diagnosed with low back pain and radiculopathy. The patient underwent bilateral decompressive laminectomy on 8/12/15. As per progress notes on 11/3/15 by Dr. Cristian Brotea, the patient is 3 months status post L4-S1 lumbar laminectomy and fusion with instrumentation from which she has been doing relatively well.…

Persevering Through Pain Pain can come in many different shapes or forms, but it almost always requires perseverance to push through the the problem. In Call of the Wild, Buck goes through lots of physical pain and has to mature and adapt in order to persevere through these situations. In contrast, my mom experienced lots of emotional pain, and just had to accept and persevere through the difficulties that she faced. While Buck and my mom differ in the type of pain they went through, they both…

CC Sara is a 41-year-old female here today complaining of right wrist pain. HPI The patient had prior trauma to her wrist, resulting in a right radial fracture, treated with surgery by Dr. Eberhart in February of 2014. Since then, she tells me, once she recovered from that, she had been doing reasonably well. About a week and a half ago, she says she fell on her wrist. She tripped. She immediately felt pain, as well as there was swelling in the right wrist as well. She went to an urgent…