OBJECTIVE To examine pain and biopsychosocial correlates over time for women with persistent postsurgical pain after surgery for endometriosis. METHODS Cross-sectional study of women who underwent any endometriosis surgery between 2003 and 2006. Following surgery, patients completed validated questionnaires (Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire, 12-item Short-Form Health Survey, Beck Depressi...

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...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has shown promise for relieving nociceptive and neuropathic symptoms of refractory chronic pain. We assessed the efficacy of a new target for the affective component of pain, the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). A 49-year-old man with neuropathic pain underwent bilateral ACC DBS. Patient-reported outcome measures were collected before and 2 years after surgery using...

A study was conducted to clarify the nature of catastrophizing, a construct that is frequently referred to in the chronic pain literature. Information regarding 3 affective experience and 3 affect regulation dimensions was gathered from a heterogeneous sample of 104 chronic pain patients by using a semistructured clinical interview and the Affect Regulation and Experience Q-Sort (AREQ). Self-re...

Objectives: The current study evaluated the analgesic effects of bumetanide as an adjunctive in the management of neuropathic pain following spinal cord injury (SCI). The peripheral expression of Na-K-Cl cotransporter-1 (NKCC1) and K-Cl cotransporter-2 (KCC2) genes in polymorphonuclear lymphocytes (PMLs) was assessed as a possible biomarker indicating central mechanisms underlying the observed ...

introduction: mcgill pain questionnaire (mpq) is the most useful standard tools for pain assessment. due to cultural differences, the questionnaire has been translated into several languages. we aimed to translate and adapt mpq into persian language and assess its reliability in iranian cancer patients. methods: the mpq was translated by translation-base method with preserving the original stru...

OBJECTIVE This prospective observational study of the Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36), Oswestry Disability Index, Lithuanian version of the McGill Pain Questionnaire, and Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) for pain was performed to evaluate their effectiveness in the additional preoperative screening of patients with disc herniation disease. PATIENTS AND METHODS In the present study, we investigate...