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Newborn babies should not be given sugar as pain relief, says study
Research in The Lancet warns that existing medical practice does not work and may cause brain damageDoctors should stop giving newborn babies sugar to relieve the pain of minor medical procedures because it does not work and may damage their brains, new research in The Lancet warns today.The study says that small doses of oral sucrose do not reduce the pain which a baby feels when its heel is pricked to yield a blood sample or it has a drip put in to receive antibiotics.Its conclusions directly challenge existing medical practice. Infants are routinely given tiny amounts of sugar in hospitals, both in the UK and around the world, as a way of limiting the pain they feel when they undergo short but painful procedures. Sick babies who receive sustained treatment in the early weeks of their li......
POSTED 09/02/2010 at 12:00 AM --
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Below Level Central Pain Induced by Discrete Dorsal Spinal Cord Injury
Journal of Neurotrauma , Vol. 0, No. 0. (Source: Journal of Neurotrauma)...
POSTED 09/01/2010 at 06:19 PM --
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Metronidazole-Induced Pancreatitis
Conclusion. This case provides the eighth report of Metronidazole induced pancreatitis. All of the cases were reported in females and ran a benign course.Early diagnosis, discontinuation of the drug and supportive care will lead to a successful recovery in the majority of cases. (Source: HPB Surgery)...
POSTED 09/01/2010 at 03:12 AM --
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The Nordic maintenance care program: what are the indications for maintenance care in patients with low back pain? A survey of the members of the Danish Chiropractors' Association
Conclusions:
There is relatively high consensus on when MC should and should not be used. A history of prior low back pain combined with a positive response to treatment encourages the use of MC, whereas no previous history of back pain or a worsening of symptoms discourages the use of MC. There seems to be a difference in the proportional use of MC between chiropractors with more experience educated in North America and those with less experience educated in Denmark. (Source: Chiropractic and Osteopathy)...
POSTED 08/31/2010 at 06:00 PM --
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Impact of Pain Question Modifiers on Spine Augmentation Outcome [Neuroradiology]
Conclusion:
Wide variation in the reported pain can be achieved simply by modifying specific pain questions to patients with spine augmentation.
© RSNA, 2010 (Source: Continuous Publishing articles)...
POSTED 08/31/2010 at 11:33 AM --
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"The Divine Downsizing: Champagne & Caviar Corporate Divorce"*
The good divorce or downsizing is a rarity in our personal and professional lives. The divine downsizing and loving divorce seems to border on the ridiculous. In the words of an ancient rock ân roller, "breaking up is hard to do." But as I illustrate in Transforming Toxic Leaders, successful leaders must increasingly figure out ways to steer their employees and organizations through the land mines of a recession and difficult workplace realities. We need no convincing that terminating a lover or an employee is quite unpleasant. But how do we explain a couple pledged to continue on as lovers while attorneys type up their divorce decree? What logic explains a CEO committed to transforming a massive downsizing into golden opportunities for her soon-to-be-departed engineers? It is all about ......
POSTED 08/30/2010 at 06:02 PM --
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Treatment of Chronic Low-Back Pain: A 1-Year or Greater Follow-Up
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine , Vol. 0, No. 0. (Source: The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine)...
POSTED 08/30/2010 at 04:20 PM --
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Fast Recovery After Having Your Tubes Untied
One of the first questions women might have about tubal reversal surgery is how long recovery will be and when they can begin trying to conceive. 'AllC's' is planning to have her tubes untied with Dr. Gary Berger and Dr. Charles Monteith and wonders when she can begin trying to have a baby after tubal reversal. Members of the Tubal Reversal Message Board respond to "AllC's" about the ease of their recovery and how well they were able to travel to return home following surgery. Tubal reversal patients at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center report an average pain score of 2.2 (on a 0-10 scale) on the first day following surgery. This means that patients can move around comfortably and discomfort is easily controlled with the medications provided when patients leave the facility. The majority o......
POSTED 08/29/2010 at 07:00 PM --
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Trigemino-autonomic headache related to Gasperini syndrome
We report the association of ipsilateral trigemino-autonomic headache to a case of right-sided nuclear facial and abducens
palsy (Gasperini syndrome), ipsilateral hypacusis and right hemiataxia, caused by the occlusion of the right anterior inferior
cerebellar artery. Short-lasting attacks of mild to moderate ipsilateral fronto-periorbital head pain, accompanied by lacrimation
and mild conjunctival injection during more severe attacks, were present from the onset of symptoms, with a gradual worsening
over the next few months and remitting during naproxen therapy. Magnetic resonance imaging showed an infarct in the right
cerebellar peduncle, extending toward the pontine tegmentum, also involving the ipsilateral spinal trigeminal nucleus and
tract and the trigeminal entry zone. Gasperi......
POSTED 08/28/2010 at 12:04 PM --
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Maximal aerobic power in patients with chronic low back pain: a comparison with healthy subjects
In conclusion, chronic
low back pain patients, especially women, seem to have a reduced aerobic capacity compared to healthy asymptomatic subjects.
Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s00586-010-1561-0Authors
Ivan Duque, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, ColombiaJosé-Hernán Parra, Universidad Nacional, Manizales, ColombiaAlain Duvallet, AP-HP, Hôpital Avicenne. Université Paris 13, Bobigny, France
Journal European Spine JournalOnline ISSN 1432-0932Print ISSN 0940-6719 (Source: European Spine Journal)...
POSTED 08/28/2010 at 12:03 PM --
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Hiding in Plain Sight: A Case of Tarlov Perineural Cysts
A 52-year-old woman sought help for intractable lumbosacral pain, which began after she lifted a heavy object and fell onto her back more than 2 decades ago. Additional symptoms included burning, numbness, tingling, and pain in her right hip, posterior thigh, leg, and toes, and diminished sensation and sensitivity throughout her right leg and foot. Muscle spasms/cramps, which often interrupted sleep, were intermittently present in her right buttock and right lower extremity. Right-foot drop impaired her ability to walk, and she used a wheeled walker with a seat because she could not walk more than a few steps without sitting. Other problems included: Severe pressure-type headaches, chronic abdominal and pelvic pain, cervical and thoracic back pain, frequent urinary tract infections, and ur......
POSTED 08/28/2010 at 04:45 AM --
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Empyema thoracic presenting as low back ache
Abstract: A 24 years old female was presented with a 2 weeks history of fever (high grade), cough, fatigue, shortness of breath, chest pain right side and low back ache. Patient prefers to lie towards right side. CECT thorax reveals empyema thoracic with paravertebral extension. Patient was put on IV antibiotic according to culture and sensitivity. Clinical and Radiological improvement was evident after 1 week. (Source: Respiratory Medicine CME)...
POSTED 08/28/2010 at 02:52 AM --
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Preoperative assessment of neurosurgical patients
Abstract: The aims of the preoperative assessment of neurosurgical patients include exchange of information, reassuring the anxious patient, establishing whether raised intracranial pressure is present and optimizing any co-existing medical problems, which may or may not be related to the neurological condition. The patientâs neurological status must be assessed and documented preoperatively as it will impact on the anaesthetic and is vital for assessing the patient in the postoperative period. Patients often have co-morbidity and are commonly taking hypoglycaemic, anticonvulsant, anticoagulant, antihypertensive, corticosteroid, and chronic pain medication, all of which may influence the conduct of anaesthesia. Fluid and electrolyte disturbances are common as a result of the underlying c......
POSTED 08/28/2010 at 12:08 AM --
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Multiple chronic pain states are associated with a common amino acid-changing allele in KCNS1
Not all patients with nerve injury develop neuropathic pain. The extent of nerve damage and age at the time of injury are two of the few risk factors identified to date. In addition, preclinical studies show that neuropathic pain variance is heritable. To define such factors further, we performed a large-scale gene profiling experiment which plotted global expression changes in the rat dorsal root ganglion in three peripheral neuropathic pain models. This resulted in the discovery that the potassium channel alpha subunit KCNS1, involved in neuronal excitability, is constitutively expressed in sensory neurons and markedly downregulated following nerve injury. KCNS1 was then characterized by an unbiased network analysis as a putative pain gene, a result confirmed by single nucleotide polymor......
POSTED 08/27/2010 at 08:47 PM --
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Operculo-insular pain (parasylvian pain): a distinct central pain syndrome
Central pain with dissociated thermoalgesic sensory loss is common in spinal and brainstem syndromes but not in cortical lesions. Out of a series of 270 patients investigated because of somatosensory abnormalities, we identified five subjects presenting with central pain and pure thermoalgesic sensory loss contralateral to cortical stroke. All of the patients had involvement of the posterior insula and inner parietal operculum. Lemniscal sensory modalities (position sense, graphaestesia, stereognosis) and somatosensory evoked potentials to non-noxious inputs were always preserved, while thermal and pain sensations were profoundly altered, and laser-evoked potentials to thermo-nocoiceptive stimuli were always abnormal. Central pain resulting from posterior parasylvian lesions appears to be ......
POSTED 08/27/2010 at 08:47 PM --
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Systemic blockade of P2X3 and P2X2/3 receptors attenuates bone cancer pain behaviour in rats
Pain remains an area of considerable unmet clinical need, and this is particularly true of pain associated with bone metastases, in part because existing analgesic drugs show only limited efficacy in many patients and in part because of the adverse side effects associated with these agents. An important issue is that the nature and roles of the algogens produced in bone that drive pain-signalling systems remain unknown. Here, we tested the hypothesis that adenosine triphosphate is one such key mediator through actions on P2X3 and P2X2/3 receptors, which are expressed selectively on primary afferent nocioceptors, including those innervating the bone. Using a well-established rat model of bone cancer pain, AF-353, a recently described potent and selective P2X3 and P2X2/3 receptor antagonist,......
POSTED 08/27/2010 at 08:47 PM --
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Cholesterol rose after taking glucosamine and chondroitin
I took glucosamine and chondroitin for about seven months. I had gotten little relief for my back pain, but I was willing to continue it to see if eventually it would help. Around that time, I had blood work done and found that my cholesterol had jumped from under 200 to 239. I had made no changes in lifestyle or diet other than these supplements. I haven't taken any since. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)...
POSTED 08/27/2010 at 06:36 PM --
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Prevalence of diagnosis and direct treatment costs of back disorders in 644,773 children and youths in Germany
Conclusions:
Instead of focusing on the individual, and self-reported disorder or disability, this analysis allowed for the detailed evaluation of medical experts' opinion on back disorders in childhood and youth and for a more objective or public health oriented insight in the topic of diagnosis of back pain and other back disorders. However, due to the methodological limitations by using ICD-10 coding, standardized random validity checks of population based data sets should be mandatory. (Source: BioMed Central)...
POSTED 08/27/2010 at 06:00 PM --
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Transient receptor potential ion channels V4 and A1 contribute to pancreatitis pain in mice
We report a major role for TRPV4, which detects osmotic pressure and arachidonic acid metabolites, and TRPA1, which responds to 4-hydroxynonenal and cyclopentenone prostaglandins, in pancreatic inflammation and pain in mice. Immunoreactive TRPV4 and TRPA1 were detected in pancreatic nerve fibers and in dorsal root ganglia neurons innervating the pancreas, which were identified by retrograde tracing. Agonists of TRPV4 and TRPA1 increased intracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) in these neurons in culture, and neurons also responded to the TRPV1 agonist capsaicin and are thus nociceptors. Intraductal injection of TRPV4 and TRPA1 agonists increased c-Fos expression in spinal neurons, indicative of nociceptor activation, and intraductal TRPA1 agonists also caused pancreatic inflammation. Th......
POSTED 08/27/2010 at 04:03 PM --
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Back Disk Injuries
The pain of a spinal disk injury can stop a person in their tracks. Every movement can be excruciating, carrying with it the risk of further injury and permanent damage. (Source: Disabled World)...
POSTED 08/27/2010 at 01:59 PM --
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