Animal-facilitated therapy (AFT), more specifically known as animal-assisted therapy (AAT) or "pet therapy," has had an increased presence in the literature with a surge of recent research methodologies exploring this complementary alternative medicine (CAM) intervention. However, limited studies have been conducted in the pediatric population, with many articles anecdotal in nature. A literatu...

context: vomiting is one of the most prevalent side effects of chemotherapy in cancer patients. aims: the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of ginger plant on chemotherapy-induced vomiting, since the previous studies were somehow imperfect and have provided controversial results. materials and methods: this randomized double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial was conducted on 80...

BACKGROUND Chronic pain is a common problem affecting about half of the general population. This has implications for the utilization of both conventional and alternative health services. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the use of conventional and alternative practitioners and medicines amongst individuals with chronic pain in the community. METHODS A total of 2422 individ...

One primary reason patients go to emergency departments is for pain relief. Understanding the physiologic dynamics of pain, pharmacologic methods for treatment of pain, as well CAM therapies used in treatment of pain is important to all providers in emergency care. Asking patients about self-care and treatments used outside of the emergency department is an important part of the patient history...

Objective: The study aimed to determine the correlation between pain severity, beliefs, coping, and attitudes toward complementary alternative treatments among physical therapy patients.
 Methods: This cross-sectional analytical was conducted in a rehabilitation hospital north-eastern Turkey. sample consisted of 150 patients. Data were collected using Demographic Information Form, Pain Bel...

background: vaccination is one of the most common painful procedures in infants. the irreversible consequences due to pain experiences in infants are enormous. breast feeding and massage therapy methods are the non-drug methods of pain relief. therefore, this research aimed to compare the vaccination-related pain in infants who underwent massage therapy or breast feeding during injection. mater...

introduction: bone metastases are the most common cause of cancer-related pain in various primary malignant tumors, most often, breast and prostate. 188re-hydroxyethylidene diphosphonate (188re-hedp) is a new and less expensive bone seeking radiopharmaceutical with favorable physical characteristics of the radionuclide such as short half life of 16.9h, maximal β energy of 2.1 mev with a 15% γ-c...

among patients with chronic unrelieved pain, war veterans of eight years long iraq - iran war deserve especial attention. they not only suffer from severe intractable pain but also should bear some intangible consequences of unrelieved pain and severe disability. this perspective study reviews the outcome of implantation of intrathecal opioid pumps in these patients. ten war veterans (mean age ...

over the past three decades physicians have used light level laser therapy (lllt) for the management and the treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy and have obtained results that calls for further investigations. this study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of lllt in treatment of pain symptoms in patients with diabetic polyneuropathy. in this study 60 patients with diabetic periphera...