Erbium--169 was compared with triamcinolone hexacetonide in the topical treatment of 32 patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. Erbium--169 was injected into 83 and triamcinolone hexacetonide into 54 proximal interphalangeal or metacarpophalangeal joints. Both treatments produced alleviation of joint pain and swelling and improvement of grip strength. At every check-up (1--18 months) the ...

Introduction: Neuropathic pain syndromes are changes resulting from damage to neuronal pathways that are characterized by spontaneous burning sensation with accompanying allodynia and hyperalgesia. Since the treatments of neuropathic pain are poorly understood and existing treatments are often ineffective, it is important to increase our understanding of the neuropathic pain states in order ...

The specialist literature highlights that the clinical management of pain involves psychological difficulties associated with the pursuit of the alleviation of the suffering of patients. Therefore, an investigation was conducted into the perception of stress and coping strategies of 31 professionals of different categories from a severe burns care center (acute pain) and a pain control and pall...

Ocular pain can be multi-factorial and often refractory to treatment, in spite of the myriad options available to the ophthalmologist for its management. Initial therapy entails the use of topical and systemic pressure lowering agents as well as anti-inflammatory/analgesics for the provision of relief. Those refractory to medical therapy may require surgical intervention in the form of cyclodes...

OBJECTIVES We evaluated the alleviation of post-tonsillectomy pain with systemic and topical applications. PATIENTS AND METHODS Data obtained from 78 patients (28 females, 50 males) who had undergone tonsillectomy for recurrent tonsillitis by conventional cold surgery were reviewed with prospective, randomized clinical study. Initially, the patients were assigned into topical and systemic dru...

Background: Aromatherapy parents’ education about pain alleviation during child vaccinations supports family-centered care and has the potency to progress management in children. Aim of study: evaluate effect aromatherapy parent intervention (massage with lavender oil) alleviating injection among children submitting vaccination. Subject methods: Quasi experimental design two groups have been ut...

Suffering—background Clinicians commonly see the alleviation of their patients' suffering as one of the principal aims of their clinical work. Public health specialists adopt a similar view. For example, the World Health Organisation website includes >10,000 references to 'suffering'. Crucially, the alleviation of suffering is not the same as alleviation of symptoms. Some interventions may alle...

Background: To examine whether embolization of dural or pial blood supply branch is more efficient for symptom alleviation for unruptured mixed dural-pial arteriovenous malformations (DPAVMs). Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 30 DPAVM patients from a database of 425 consecutive cerebral arteriovenous malformation (CAVM) patients who underwent endovascular embolization between January 2010 a...