The discussion about chronic pain management anesthesiology is incomplete until and unless the very important aspect of pain is taken into wider consideration which is the chronic pain. Chronic pain is the major symptom of the majority of the patients presenting at outpatient clinics. It is the most commonly overlooked, misunderstood or wrongly labeled and […]
Visual analogue scale for pain intensity is a numerical pain rating scale which uses a 10 cm line with the numbers ranging from 0-10. Patients points out the number that corresponds to the level of pain they are feeling. The significance of the numbers must be explained to the patient. Intensity of the pain is
Treatment modalities in pain management play an important role when dealing with different circumstances which include the following : 1. Treatment of Disease (Cancer) in pain management : After the diagnosis and confirmation, appropriate therapy has to be started, especially for symptom ‘pain’. Symptom like mucositis, dysphagia etc, can be controlled by using local anesthetics,
Physiotherapy management electrotherapy is the application of electrical current to the area of generation of nociception. Physiotherapeutic methods are based on use of mainly two different modalities: 1. Electrotherapy 2. Exercise therapy This can be achieved with following methods of electrical current: • Low frequency • Medium frequency • High frequency Low frequency: i) The
Acupuncture physiotherapy pain reduction technique is an ancient Chinese modality used for various chronic painful conditions, in addition to non pain related problems like acute asthma, chronic sinusitis, etc. The human body has a life force or energy flowing — Chi. This life force is flowing through various channels — Meridians. The life force (Chi)
All of these nonsteroidal anti inflammatory drugs side effects collectively lead to breach of the integrity of gastric mucosal lining, and gastric ulceration is the result. Following are the nonsteroidal anti inflammatory drugs side effects : Gastritis : As an overall decrease in production of prostaglandins takes place. Some of the protective PGs like PGE1, PGE2,and
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In shiatsu techniques relaxation , treatment is given to the selected points in the palms which are in connection with the different parts of the body. Acupressure means applying pressure to an Acu point representing the area of treatment in question. Sujok is a word derived from Korean word: Su means hand, Jok means feet
Reiki therapy techniques have been in practice since 2nd—3rd century; it was forgotten and about 130 years back was reinvented by Dr. Mikao Usui. WHO has defined it as “Non physical healing energy comprising universal life force energy (divine in nature) having its own intelligence”. Rei: means in Japanese, universal; Ki : life force energy
The use of tens electrical stimulation to reduce the pain especially of postoperative nature is the main use of this technique. The tens electrical stimulation principle is again based on “gate control theory” of Melzaek and Wall, viz: small fibres stimulation leads to transmission of nociceptive stimuli via substantia gelatinosa (SG) cells which act as
The chronic pain syndrome pathophysiology is disturbance in the process of acute nociception. The processes of transduction, transmission, modulation and perception have somehow got disturbed. The pain stimuli which were supposed to be sent forward before closing of gate, get more and more intensely forwarded rather than getting modulated. In addition, due to sustained partial
