Pain

Children’s pain needs to be properly and adequately assessed before it can be managed effectively. Early pain detection, adequate treatment will reduce pain episodes in paediatrics population. According to Ashley (2009), goal of pain assessment is to detect presence of pain, its severity and assess the effectiveness of any interventions. Assessment of pain in children should be subjective if they are verbal or observational based on behavior and physiological changes if nonverbal as reported by…

Pain Pain is something nobody wants to endure, whether it is physical, mental, or emotional pain, they are all never fun to go through. Even though pain is no fun, without our body’s telling us we are experiencing pain, worse consequences can occur. For instance, if you roll over your ankle and end up spraining it, without our body's sending a message to our brain that we need to take care of our ankle, our sprained ankle will gradually get worse and not heal. With this being said, I completely…

several pain assessment tools that include initial pain assessment, the brief pain inventory, the short- form McGill Pain Questionnaire, PQRST method of pain assessment, pain-rating scales, numeric rating scales, verbal descriptor scale, visual analogue scale, and the descriptor scale. Then for a infants a nurse would depend on the patient's behavioral and physiologic cues, and when assessing a two year old the nurse would be able to rely on the patient to point to the location of the pain and…

Mrs. P is a 43-year-old woman with a “shoulder pain that keeps getting worse” for the duration of six months. Mrs. P’s health was typical until about six months ago when she noticed the onset of deep aching pain that radiates from the left shoulder to the upper left back and the upper left arm. The patient has never had shoulder pain or pain in any other part of the body previously. On a scale of 1 to 10, the pain initially started out as a 4 and for that reason, the patient did not deem it…

Pain is one of the most common complaints that nurses treat (Brunner, Suddarth & Smeltzer, 2008). Despite the existence of many pharmacological and nonpharmacological pain management strategies, eighty six percent of children experience severe pain two days after a tonsillectomy (Dorkham, Chalkiadis, Sternberg & Davidson, 2013). This essay will explore the concept of acute pain, and its potential nursing management strategies in relation to a three year old undergoing a tonsillectomy. The main…

We are all taught that pain is a warning message, however, sometimes that voice is silenced in the heat of the moment. This book explores how the mind perceives discomfort. Philosophies from numerous doctors and scientists are included between the pages to offer another view on the inner workings of the human body. Many people imagine pain to work like a simple, signaling system. A body expects a certain injury to coincide with a fixed amount of pain which gets transmitted to the brain. However,…

ENQUÊTE DESCRIPTIVE DES CARACTÉRISTIQUES CLINIQUES DES CERVICALGIES CHRONIQUES Background: Neck pain is a major health burden and one of the most common reasons to consult a health professional1, such as physical therapy (PT). In rehabilitation, better outcomes are obtained when PT treatments are driven by non-specific diagnosis, such as when patients are classified according to their clinical presentation. The intention behind the use of a classification system is to help therapists classify…

Tips For Neck Pain Relief Neck pain is a fairly common complaint that has a variety of causes. It can result from muscle strain, an injury, or a medical condition. If you have severe pain or chronic pain, then you'll want to see your doctor for an evaluation. Here are some things that might help with your neck pain. Uncover The Cause Try to figure out what's causing the pain so you can stop the activity. It might be from carrying a heavy bag on one shoulder or the way you position your head…

Shoulder Problems Musculoskeletal shoulder pain is a one of the top three musculoskeletal pain complaints, with a population prevalence of up to 16% in some surveys. It is not limited to particular age groups or AU5 AU6 p0130 p0135 p0140 p0145 p0150 p0155 s0020 p0160 To protect the rights of the author(s) and publisher we inform you that this PDF is an uncorrected proof for internal business use only by the author(s), editor(s), reviewer(s), Elsevier and typesetter SPi. It is not allowed to…

was administered at the previous visit and deciding whether any modifications are appropriate to the treatment regimen. The pain is better and down to a 3/10. The neck pain remained mild. She had a neurology evaluation, but the EMG was denied. The patient has right upper extremity numbness, tingling and weakness. She has been dropping items due to her weakness. The sciatic pain has resolved. She has completed PT and…