During the past two years, we have been using transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) for pain control after spinal fusion with Harrington rods. This report describes our postoperative pain management program and our evaluation of its effectiveness. We examined postoperative pain medication usage and found that patients using TENS received fewer doses of several commonly prescribed p...

Women report more pain than men. It also seems that gender may moderate responses to pharmacological agents used to combat pain, suggesting that men and women differ in treatment efficacy. Recent research suggests that gender differences may also exist in response to interdisciplinary pain management interventions. We, therefore, report data from a treatment-outcome program at a UK Pain Managem...

introduction: after low back pain, the neck pain is the most prevalent pain among (especially elderly) peoples. the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of one period of exercise program on subjects neck rom and chronic neck pain. materials and methods:  for executing this study 60 elderly patient (24 males and 36 females) with mean age 56± 4.5 years old and 71± 4.4 kg with chronic...

OBJECTIVE To describe the experiences of emergency department (ED) use among a population of Rhode Island Medicaid patients with chronic pain and a recent history of frequent ED use, who were eligible to participate in the Rhode Island Medicaid Pain Management program. METHODS  Qualitative interviews were conducted with twenty-four patients who were either enrolled, or eligible to be enrolled...

Purpose The number of cancer cases in China has increased rapidly from 2.1 million in 2000 to 4.3 million in 2015. As a consequence, pain management as an integral part of cancer treatment became an important health care issue. In March 2011, the Good Pain Management (GPM) program was launched to standardize the treatment of cancer pain and improve the quality of life for patients with cancer. ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the usefulness of daily pain management diaries to outpatients with cancer who participated in a randomized clinical trial of the PRO-SELF Pain Control Program. DESIGN Randomized clinical trial in which a daily pain management diary was used for data collection in the control group and for data collection and nurse coaching regarding the pain management program ...

BACKGROUND Pain is one of the most frequent and distressing symptoms in cancer patients. For the majority of the patients, sufficient pain relief can be obtained if adequate treatment is provided. However, pain remains often undertreated due to institutional, health care professional and patient related barriers. Patients self management skills are affected by the patients' knowledge, activitie...

2 facility was the first MN DOC site to implement a structured chronic pain management program. The IPMP is a 3-month, group-based multidisciplinary program with a focus on the biological, psychological, and social aspects of chronic pain. The IPMP was developed to reduce symptoms of chronic pain, and in turn, to decrease the frequency of medical, nursing, and mental health visits among offende...