News tagged with pain
Physically abused children report higher levels of psychosomatic symptoms
Children who display multiple psychosomatic symptoms, such as regular aches and pains and sleep and appetite problems, are more than twice as likely to be experiencing physical abuse at home than children who do not display ...
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Video-based home exercise can minimize osteoarthritis pain, improve mobility
The benefits of exercise in minimizing pain and improving mobility for individuals living with osteoarthritis has been well documented.
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Anxiety trait linked to postoperative pain in men following total knee replacement
Increased pain following surgery has long been linked to anxiety and "catastrophizing," an extreme response to stress.
Feb 08, 2012 |
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New findings highlight the benefit of exercise ECGs just as they are being scrapped
In the UK, the exercise electrocardiogram (ECG) is the most common initial test for the evaluation of stable chest pain and has been used widely for almost half a century. However, recent NICE guidelines recommend that it ...
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Gene mutation discovery sparks hope for effective endometriosis screening
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have, for the first time, described the genetic basis of endometriosis, a condition affecting millions of women that is marked by chronic pelvic pain and infertility. ...
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Optimism and humour can help to combat dental fear
Scientists at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have investigated the strategies used by people who suffer from dental fear to cope with dental treatment. Some of the most important ...
Feb 06, 2012 |
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A new study shows how to boost the power of pain relief, without drugs
(Medical Xpress) -- Placebos reduce pain by creating an expectation of relief. Distractionsay, doing a puzzlerelieves it by keeping the brain busy. But do they use the same brain processes? Neuromaging suggests ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 03, 2012 |
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Emotional grief could lead to heart attack
In the past, suffering from a broken heart was simply a way to describe the emotional pain one felt when dealing with a personal misfortune—a breakup or even the death of a loved one.
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Feb 02, 2012 |
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New GSA resources lay foundation for relieving seniors' pain
The pain suffered by older adults is the shared focus of the two newest entries in The Gerontological Society of America's (GSA) From Publication to Practice series. Together they address both pain management and new labeling changes for one ...
Jan 31, 2012 |
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Cancer patients' pain can be helped by psychosocial interventions, say researchers
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center, who teamed with colleagues at five universities around the United States, analyzed past studies of cancer-related pain reduction and found that psychosocial interventions can have a beneficial ...
Jan 30, 2012 |
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Study of one million Americans shows obesity and pain linked
(Medical Xpress) -- A clear association between obesity and pain with higher rates of pain identified in the heaviest individuals was found in a study of more than one million Americans published January 19 ...
Jan 27, 2012 |
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Women report feeling pain more intensely than men: study
Women report more-intense pain than men in virtually every disease category, according to Stanford University School of Medicine investigators who mined a huge collection of electronic medical records to establish the broad ...
Jan 23, 2012 |
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New understanding of chronic pain suggests new target for drug development
Millions of people worldwide suffer from a type of chronic pain called neuropathic pain, which is triggered by nerve damage. Precisely how this pain persists has been a mystery, and current treatments are largely ineffective. ...
Jan 22, 2012 |
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To fight epidemic of unnecessary suffering, Stanford dean calls for major public health campaign
The amount of needless suffering caused by both acute and chronic pain in the United States is a major, overlooked medical problem that requires improved education at multiple levels, stretching from the implementation of ...
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Posture balance directly linked with back pain
Back pain has a direct linear link with a persons balance, according to new research from a Murdoch University PhD student.
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Pain
Pain, in the sense of physical pain, is a typical sensory experience that may be described as the unpleasant awareness of a noxious stimulus or bodily harm. Individuals experience pain by various daily hurts and aches, and sometimes through more serious injuries or illnesses. For scientific and clinical purposes, pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage".
In medicine, pain is considered as highly subjective. A definition that is widely used in nursing was first given as early as 1968 by Margo McCaffery: "Pain is whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever he says it does". Pain of any type is the most common reason for physician consultation in the United States, prompting half of all Americans to seek medical care annually. It is a major symptom in many medical conditions, significantly interfering with a person's quality of life and general functioning. Diagnosis is based on characterizing pain in various ways, according to duration, intensity, type (dull, burning, throbbing or stabbing), source, or location in body. Usually pain stops without treatment or responds to simple measures such as resting or taking an analgesic, and it is then called ‘acute’ pain. But it may also become intractable and develop into a condition called chronic pain, in which pain is no longer considered a symptom but an illness by itself. The study of pain has in recent years attracted many different fields such as pharmacology, neurobiology, nursing, dentistry, physiotherapy, and psychology. Pain medicine is a separate subspecialty figuring under some medical specialties like anesthesiology, physiatry, neurology, and psychiatry.
Pain is part of the body's defense system, triggering a reflex reaction to retract from a painful stimulus, and helps adjust behavior to increase avoidance of that particular harmful situation in the future. Given its significance, physical pain is also linked to various cultural, religious, philosophical, or social issues.
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