Setting A hospital in Switzerland. Patients 148 patients (mean age 45 y, 57% women, mean LBP duration 11 y) who were < 65 years of age and had > 3 months of LBP with or without referred pain serious enough to require medical attention or absence from work. Exclusion criteria included constant or persistent severe pain, pregnancy, previous spinal surgery, and current nerve-root entrapment accomp...

were hard, particularly the right, the tension of which was + 3. Oil questioning the patient, she states that she never felt any uneasiness in the eyes, but a sharp pain referred to the supra-orbital notch on the right side, which commenced three years ago, and with it gradual loss of sight in the eye of the same side. Yision on the left side began to fail about a year since. Ophthalmoscopic ex...

Pericoronitis is the most common odontogenic problem associated with the wisdom tooth in young men and women. Patients may present with problems associated with infection, swelling and pain. However, other associated pathology such as caries, periodontal disease and referred pain from the temporomandibular joint must be investigated when treating pain from the wisdom tooth. The authors wish to ...

Cervicogenic headache is characterised by pain referred to the head from the cervical spine. Although the International Headache Society recognises this type of headache as a distinct disorder, some clinicians remain sceptical. Laboratory and clinical studies have shown that pain from upper cervical joints and muscles can be referred to the head. Clinical diagnostic criteria have not proved val...

Headache publishes original articles on all aspects of head and face pain including communications on clinical and basic research, diagnosis and management, epidemiology, genetics, and pathophysiology of primary and secondary headaches, cranial neuralgias, and pains referred to the head and face. Monthly issues feature case reports, short communications, review articles, letters to the editor, ...

(Chief Assistant, Department of Chronic Rheumatism at the West London Hospital, and at the Hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth.) Muscular rheumatism is probably the commonest ailment that affects mankind, yet in spite of its ubiquity little really scientific work has been done on the subject until recently, and almost nothing is known about its pathology. In the last few years certain aspect...

OBJECTIVE This article describes the application of quality improvement methodology to implement a measurement tool for the assessment of functional status in pediatric patients with chronic pain referred for behavioral intervention. METHODS The Functional Disability Inventory (FDI), a validated instrument for assessment of pain-related disability, was chosen as the primary clinical outcome m...

INTRODUCTION Musculoskeletal pain is one of the most frequent complaints among teachers, compromising their health and quality of life. OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of musculoskeletal pain among teachers, assessing their occurrence according to sociodemographic characteristics, general health and well-being at work. METHODS An exploratory cross-sectional study conducted with 525 tea...

Dorsal root ganglion neurones with dichotomising axons are present in several species and are considered to play a role in referred pain. Clinically, patients with lesions in the lower lumbar discs occasionally complain of pain in the groin. We investigated the existence of dichotomising afferent neurones projecting axons both to the lumbar disc and to the groin skin, using the double fluoresce...

The practical points in the differential diagnosis of the various acute painful conditions of the ear are not clearly mentioned in textbooks on the subject, and hence the following lines are meant to point out very briefly the important distinguishing features in their diagnosis. It is best to divide them into acute painful conditions of the external, middle and internal ear, and to referred pa...