Throughout history, various forms of morphine have been the most effective medications in relieving pain. Opioid analgesics—the natural, semisynthetic, and synthetic derivatives of morphine—are used routinely in the management of acute musculoskeletal pain. However, myths and misunderstandings about these drugs often prevent primary care physicians from prescribing them for chronic pain, such a...

  Background: Pain, a common phenomenon in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, is associated with many symptoms and problems.  To investigation severity and distribution of musculoskeletal pain in MS patients. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 115 members of the Mazandaran MS Association with confirmed MS were randomly selected to participate in the study. The patients were asked to fill ou...

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...

Throughout history, various forms of morphine have been the most effective medications in relieving pain. Opioid analgesics—the natural, semisynthetic, and synthetic derivatives of morphine—are used routinely in the management of acute musculoskeletal pain. However, myths and misunderstandings about these drugs often prevent primary care physicians from prescribing them for chronic pain, such a...

Introduction Key characteristics of musculoskeletal pain are (i) diffuse aching pain, (ii) referred pain to distant somatic structures, (iii) deep-tissue hyperalgesia (general and localized), (iv) transition from acute to chronic pain, and (v) disturbed muscle function with reduced contraction force. Methods for quantitative assessment of musculoskeletal pain characteristics provide clinically ...

musculoskeletal disorders (wmsds) are of serious concern to many organizations, including health care centres. low back pain (lbp) with no clinical cause is common in nurses. this study aimed to assess the prevalence rate of lbp in nurses. this descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out on a population of 351 nurses from educational hospitals of yazd university of medical sciences; yazd...