OBJECTIVE To compare the incidence of pain relief following injection of local anesthetic (LA) into lumbar discs that caused concordant pain during provocation testing. DESIGN Prospective collected data review from two centers and compare with published results. OUTCOME MEASURES We compared subjective reported pain relief following provocative testing using the following protocols at three ...

Clinicians and researchers often ask patients to remember their past pain. They also use patient's reports of relief from pain as evidence of treatment efficacy, assuming that relief represents the difference between pretreatment pain and present pain. We have estimated the accuracy of remembering pain and described the relationship between remembered pain, changes in pain levels and reports of...

results three hundred patients were eligible for the study. after 1 month, 62% of patients (186 patients) reported good pain relief [95% confidence interval (ci) 0.53, 0.7]; 8.6% (26 patients) reported excellent pain relief (95% ci 0.07-0.09); 20. 4% (61 patients) reported poor pain relief (95% ci 0.18-0.22), and 9% (27 patients) reported no pain relief (95% ci 0.08-0.099). the average pain num...

background: post episiotomy pain affects a large number of women after the delivery. the common method for pain relief is using oral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. considering the side effects of these medicines, the aim of present study was to compare the effects of indomethacin suppository and mefenamic acid capsule on post episiotomy pain. methods: in a clinical trial study, sixty wo...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to assess the attitudes of maternal health care providers to pain relief during labor in Zaria, Nigeria. METHODS This was a multicenter, collaborative, cross-sectional pilot study of provider perspectives concerning pain relief during labor. A structured, self-administered, questionnaire was completed by 95 consenting maternal health care providers at ...