Article: Pain Tx can improve cognition, lift depression: to get handle on extent of patients' pain, ask them direct questions and pay attention to nonverbal cues.(Geriatric Psychiatry)(Disease/Disorder overview)

Article: Treating pain improves cognition in the elderly: it is not always appreciated that pain can increase anxiety, depression, and cognitive impairment.(Geriatrics)
Internal Medicine News;  June 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ......eight who were pain free (Pain Med. 2008;9:240-8). The comorbidity of pain and depression is a vicious...has been described, and both pain and weakened immunity have...associated with an increase in inflammatory cytokines. Inflammatory cytokines are...cytokines ...

Article: Treat pain to improve cognition in older adults.(Geriatric Medicine)(Disease/Disorder overview)
Family Practice News;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......eight who were pain free (Pain Med. 2008;9:240-8). The comorbidity of pain and depression is a vicious...has been described, and both pain and weakened immunity have...associated with an increase in inflammatory cytokines. Inflammatory cytokines are...cytokines ...

Article: REAL PAIN TRAPS YOU IN YOUR OWN, UNIQUE WORLD.(DAILY BREAK)(Column)
The Virginian Pilot;  February 14, 2000 ;     689 words ...PAIN IS PERSONAL. Anyone experiencing pain, and we all have, knows that. I can't equate the depth of your pain, anymore than you can mine. I can ask you to calculate your pain on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the worst. However, statistics show...

Article: Chronic Pain in Later Life
Generations;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Pain is a complex and unpleasant subjective sensory experience. Undertreated pain not only causes intrinsic suffering but also can affect the...80 percent of nursing home residents suffer from chronic pain (American Geriatric Society [AGS] panel, 2002). Racial/ethnic...

Article: Hotline to focus on pain control
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  July 7, 2006 ;     617 words ...Pain can drive even a reluctant patient to seek medical attention...Dr. Christopher Caldwell, who has completed an Anesthesia Pain Medicine Fellowship and is board-certified in neuromusculoskeletal...make the patients a very informed part of their treatment." Pain -- from nerve damage to cancer pain ...

Article: Cultural differences in pain management.
Radiologic Technology;  March 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Pain is an even worse master than death. --Albert Schweitzer People...patients referred for diagnostic imaging exams suffer from pain related to trauma or disease, and radiology procedures sometimes can exacerbate their pain. Hard tables, cold rooms and diagnostic procedures such as...

Article: Patient: 'Doctor, What's Causing My Pain?' Doctor: 'Any One, Or Combination, Or Mechanisms...Let Me Explain'
The Culvert Chronicles;  June 7, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Pain, as a concept and symptom, is discussed and described throughout professional and lay medical literature. "Pain" is the reason for initial contact with any physician for the vast majority of medical problems, e.g. abdominal pain, chest pain, limb pain, low back pain, etc. ...

Article: Simply living with pain isn't in the plan Some advice offered on what you can do when you're hurting
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  June 24, 1996 ;     363 words ...Pain is something patients should take special pains to communicate...It is important for patients and physicians to develop a "pain plan" for treating the problem through mutual discussion, the June Mayo Clinic Health Letter said. Pain can become a damaging process in its own right and requires...

Article: An Updated Review Of Analgesics And Their Capacity To Alleviate Mild, Moderate And Severe Pain In Both Acute And Chronic Conditions
The Culvert Chronicles;  April 12, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Pain has been described as the lowest common denominator of the human experience. It will...of everyone sooner or later and is deemed to be an integral part of life. In fact, pain may even be necessary for an organism's continued existence or survival. Pain is derived from the Latin term "poena" which ...

Article: Pain exit strategies: chiropractors have a diverse arsenal to combat patients' chronic and acute complaints.
Chiropractic Products;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Pain is often a roadblock on the road to good health, and it must be addressed by the chiropractor even before the patient is adjusted. The body just shuts down when you're in pain, says Carl Amodio, DC. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] But how to address pain is as individual as the patient and the chiropractor's ...

Article: Pain Management.
Journal of Neuroscience Nursing;  August 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Pain Management Regardless of its cause, pain is one of the main clinical challenges within most disciplines...the clinical neurosciences. Perception and expression of pain is highly complex and dependent not only on the actual level...

Article: Pain relief becoming a right of patients
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  December 26, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Pain relief becoming a right of patients Violating standard of...When you enter a hospital, you have a right to have your pain properly treated. That sounds so common-sense, yet millions of Americans suffer every day because pain is routinely ignored or undertreated. But starting next week...

Article: A world of hurt: all about canine pain and pain management.(TOUR OF THE DOG)
Whole Dog Journal;  September 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Pain may be the most enigmatic of all the disease symptoms of man or beast. It is a sensation...or another and in varying degrees. But, few of us can explain adequately how a particular pain feels, fewer still can give a reasonable explanation for why pain occurs; and despite all the recent scientific ...

Article: Evolving theory of pain management.(Details)
Risk Management;  February 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Chronic pain is an ever-increasing issue in the workplace...and AIDS. Across the spectrum of chronic pain, the vast majority of claims is related to soft-tissue injury, particularly back pain. The first major advancement in the treatment...