Pain Management and Use of Alternative Therapies Pain is defined as what the person suffering the pain describes it to be and it occurs when the individual says they are in pain (Lewis‚ Dirksen‚ & Heitkemper‚ 2010‚ pp. 128). Thus‚ pain is subjective and specific to the patient. It is complex and multidimensional‚ and untreated pain can cause emotional distress‚ physical and psychosocial dysfunction‚ diminished recovery from acute ailments and procedures‚ immunosuppression‚ and sleep disorders
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thing but is is worth sacrificing everything? Is it worth putting yourself through so much pain up until the point of death? When analyzing The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare we see that love often cause tremendous pain both physically and emotionally. Anger‚ insults‚ heartbreak‚ and even death all share the same root...Love. In one occasion‚ Juliet and Lord Capulet causes each other pain in the scene when Juliet tells her father and mother that she does not want to marry Paris
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Acupuncture for Pain Management Everyone at one point in his or her life has felt pain. Image if you had constant pain with no relieve in site. With acupuncture‚ relief is just a thin wire away. Scientists are not ready to admit that acupuncture works in pain management. However‚ studies have shown that acupuncture can modifies the perception of pain and how it is processed by the brain. Through neuroimaging and genomics‚ scientists can see the changes within the brain’s pain center. They
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hypnotherapy can have in pain relief and stress reduction. M.E. is an illness about which there is currently much disagreement among medical professionals regarding its classification‚ aetiology and recommended treatment. Estimates of it’s prevalence in the UK
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empower the practitioners to control their pain perception. It was conducted in 2011 by the neuroscientist Fadel Zeidan who followed the already established by Wilder Penfield fact - that sensation of pain is perceived by the brain at the same place where the feeling of touch is - that is‚ the somatosensory cortex. The experiment hypothesised that there will be a noticeable difference in the process of pain perception and reaction in people with chronic pain that had undergone MBSR intervention. Baseline
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Pain control is the second nursing priority for Candace that needs attention. Women who undergo caesarean section experience high levels of pain during the first 24 hours post-operation (Acton‚ 2011). One study suggests that those women need more adequate pain relief than other surgical patients because women start to breastfeed and look after their infants while they are still recovering from major abdominal surgery (Shahraki‚ Jabalameli‚ & Ghaedi‚ 2012). Inadequate postoperative pain control during
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This literature review will be looking at an assortment of scholarly articles available online in order to investigate the effects of different kinds of chronic joint pain‚ their causes and different methods of treatment with varying levels of effectiveness and acceptance by the medical community. Chronic joint pain is primarily caused by arthritis‚ the common name for over 200 diseases and conditions that cause swelling and inflammation of joints and surrounding tissues. The most common forms of
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INTERVIEW WITH AN OLDER ADULT – PART 2 Throughout this paper I will discuss my second interview with F.C. regarding her assessment tool scores and summaries; I will discuss the geriatric depression scale‚ geriatric pain assessment‚ the assessment of environment and advanced directives‚ one teaching topic with interventions and an overall summary of my impression of my client. Assessment Tools – Overview of Scores Geriatric Depression Scale Depression is a common disorder in the elderly. Screening
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MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDER Edited by Marie Alricsson Musculoskeletal Disorder Edited by Marie Alricsson Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9‚ 51000 Rijeka‚ Croatia Copyright © 2012 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license‚ which allows users to download‚ copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes‚ as long as the author and publisher are properly credited‚ which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider
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Although relatively new in Western medicine‚ acupuncture was developed over 3‚000 years ago in China. Used to treat just about everything from nausea to pain‚ acupuncture has become one of the most popular‚ and most intriguing‚ medical treatments at the moment. If you’re suffering from chronic pain‚ you might be considering trying this ancient‚ and often effective‚ practice‚ but first‚ you may be interested in finding how and why it works. How Acupuncture Works Acupuncture is based on the traditional
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