Background & Aims: The current study aimed to investigate the role of catastrophizing as mediator variable in the relationship of neuroticism and extraversion with fear of movement and pain intensity in patients with musculoskeletal pain. Methods: This study was conducted on 200 subjects who were selected through purposive sampling from among the clients of Sh...

Introduction: Over 85% of women having a vaginal birth suffers perineal trauma. The rate episiotomy was determined as 93.3% in primipara and 30.2% multipara women. One the most important aspects care is checking for signs infection. Most have some degree discomfort during first few postpartum days. common causes episiotomy. These include swelling, lesions, rashes, sores boils. Proper perineum a...

conclusions following cabg, the most severity of pain was reported at surgical incision on time t2. pain began to decrease from the third day following the operation. age, sex and bmi along with operation-related factors such as duration of cbp or chest tube drainage may affect the pain pattern following cabg surgery. patients and methods the present study was conducted on 138 patients who unde...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES A significant number of women experience perineal trauma following vaginal deliveries and they require stitches. This may result in perineal pain, dyspareunia and faulty healing. The type of suture material which is used, will influence these factors. This study was conducted to compare the impact of two absorbable suture materials which were used for episiotomy repair...

background: perineal pain is a major morbidity in the first few days after delivery. this study aimed to investigate the effect of dry cupping therapy and acupressure at bl23 point on the intensity of postpartum perineal pain based on the short-form of mcgill pain questionnaire (smpq). methods: the present clinical trial was conducted on 150 subjects in 3 groups of 50  cases. after at least 4-8...

Background: Neglecting the pain assessment in intensive care unit (ICU) patients with decreased level of consciousness (LOC) can lead to inappropriate pain management. Implementation of a pain management protocol may contribute to avoiding such negligence. Aim: This study aimed to determine the effect of using a pain monitoring protocol on the pain intensity of ICU patients with decreased LOC. ...

BACKGROUND Obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASIS) might cause anal incontinence (AI) and sexual dysfunction, and might be associated with urinary incontinence (UI). Episiotomy has been identified both as a risk and a protective factor of OASIS. Lately, episiotomies with specific characteristics have shown to be protective against the risk of OASIS. However, little is known about episiotomy c...