Pain

Introduction Pain is mainly subjective experience and patient’s self-report is most reliable source of the pain (Pasero and McCaffery, 1999).Pain assessment is a vital part of nursing care in intensive care unit. However, inability of critically ill ventilated patients to verbalise their pain consider main barriers to effective pain assessment (Urden et al., 2008). Additional barriers came from health professionals and environment .Under-treatment of pain in critically ill patient wildly…

Ever wonder why there are some cases in medical science where people can’t feel pain? It’s due to a hereditary disorder called congenital analgesia, sometimes known as CIPA, or, congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis. CIPA and congenital analgesia cause the person affected to not feel any pain due to genetics and mutated genes. Congenital is an incredibly complicated and rare genetic disorder. Classified as an autosomal recessive disease (Baum and O’Flaherty 83), both the mother and…

The Nature of Pain and Pleasure Emily Dickinson's poems often expresses pain but it's relationship to pleasure. In Dickinson's descriptions of pain, she treats its effects on both the body and the soul. Her poems tell a great deal about her lifestyle, which was very secluded and withdrawn from society. Dickinson's disorder unduly influenced the themes of poetry such as pain and pleasure. Pleasure also plays a major role in her life by causing her to suffer years of pain, that is said in her…

On 10/31/2016, the claimant complained of neck and upper back discomfort. She also presented with a low back pain. According to the provider, to restore a normal function and increased the range of motion, continued exercise was suggested. On 11/14/2016, the claimant presented with a low back pain and neck soreness. It was noted that her upper back was much better. Neuromuscular exercises were recommended to further increase the range of motion and core stability. The claimant had a total of 6…

Pain management is an integral aspect of health care, especially in the case of end-of-life patients. For many of these patients Hospice care is provided to ease their passing. “Hospice focuses on caring, not curing and in most cases care is provided in the patient's home. Hospice care also is provided in freestanding hospice centers, hospitals, and nursing homes and other long-term care facilities” (Hospice Care. (2015, July 23)). When it comes to treating these patients for pain, it comes from…

Pain is a stressor commonly reported by patients after critical illness. Not surprisingly, there are not always correlation between the patient’s assessment of pain and the nursing or medical staff assessment of the pain that the patient is experiencing. This is due to the fact that pain is a very individual experience with many behavioural psychological and social factors that may increase or decrease the patient’s perception of response to and report of pain (Hucther 2010, Macintyre etal 2010)…

All Pain Occurs in the Brain Pain is the body’s way of warning you about an injury that needs to be taken care of. With chronic pain, pain persists long after the injury has healed. Pain signals keep firing in the nervous system for weeks, months, even years. The experience of pain involves multiple interactive neural pathways that influence pain signals at several levels at once: Pain pathways become stimulated by painful stimuli and, with repeated stimulation, these pathways can become…

The chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS) is major problem and its incidence is increasing (1, 2), and most of those patients has the abacterial form (3, 4). The patients complaint from pain sensations in different regions, in the prostate, perineum, testes, suprapubic, groin, and back (5). These pain sensations may affect the quality of life of the patients which may be greater than pain itself (6, 7). Its cause is still unknown which may be previous infections, local chemical alterations, and…

Use Herbs to Treat Sciatica Pain Instead of Medicine If you are experiencing pain in your outer legs, back and pain, you are most likely suffering from sciatica pain. Poor posture as well as other factors such as your overall health can cause this condition. Doctors usually recommend anti-inflammatory drugs and exercises in cases of sciatica pain. Even though those drugs can relieve pain and other symptoms of the condition, they can also cause many dangerous side effects. You should never…

Nurses play a major role in preoperative , intra-operative and postoperative pain assessment and management .Pharmacological management is a challenging process to relieve pain. The first choice of drug is a background pain relief, is regular paracetamol, which is safe in the young and in the elderly, is well tolerated, effective in nociceptive and neuropathic pain and available in several dose forms. Regular doses of between 4g daily (four times a day) is recommended for…