Sentences with phrase «patients suffer pain»

Patients suffer pain and experience restrictions in terms of their mobility.

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«The charities or their telemarketers allegedly falsely told donors that their contributions would be used to provide pain medication to children suffering from cancer, to transport patients to chemotherapy appointments, and to pay for hospice care for dying patients.

When the Canadian Supreme Court conjured in its governing Charter the right to receive euthanasia for virtually any diagnosed condition that causes «irremediable suffering» — a term that includes «psychological pain,» disability, and suffering that is deemed irremediable because alleviating treatment is refused by the patient — I hoped Canadian doctors would revolt.

By ignoring the facets, Bonati said that Woods» doctors ensured their patient will «be in pain and he is going to be very dissatisfied with the surgery and he is not going to be able to perform and his quality of playing [will] suffer.»

The use of hydrogels dressings is a concept stolen from disciplines such as geriatrics, where patients suffer bed wounds and these water - based polymer matrix dressings are applied to maintain moisture, inhibit scab or crust formation, reduce pain, and enhance epithelial migration for wound repair.

Remember that pain centers often have patients suffering from lots of different types of pain, and may therefore not always be the best place to obtain pregnancy and childbirth specific pain information.

Do you still have «little respect» if it is the second labor and the first was characterized by such severe pain that the patient suffered from PTSD afterwards?

Sen. Phil Boyle (R - Bay Shore), in a memo supporting the bill, said medical marijuana «can ease patients» pain and suffering where other medications have failed.»

Gov. Cuomo announced Thursday that he and the state Legislature had reached a deal to allow patients suffering from about a dozen diseases to relieve their pain with pot.

«After conducting a thorough review of the scientific literature, it became clear that there may be certain benefits in the use of medical marijuana by patients suffering from chronic pain,» said Health Commissioner Dr. Howard A. Zucker.

Cuomo is perpetuating the pain and suffering of seriously ill patients who would benefit from medical marijuana.

Tramadol is a synthetic narcotic analgesic or pain reliever prescribed to patients suffering from moderate to severe pain.

Critics say an oils - only approach would provide relief for some kids suffering from seizures, but would be of little benefit to cancer and other patients with chronic pain who use marijuana for immediate relief.

JP: That is very important for patients who suffer from neuropsychiatric disorders or chronic pain, but it can also be used as a toy by kids who are interested in playing with their own brains and, hopefully, becoming more and more fascinated by the intricacies of our brain universe.

The method is based on a unique combination of several technologies, and has been initially tested on a patient who has suffered from severe phantom limb pain for 48 years.

The patient lost his arm 48 years ago, and had since that time suffered from phantom pain varying from moderate to unbearable.

Three Swedish hospitals and other European clinics will cooperate during the study which will target patients with conditions resembling the one in the case study — that is, people who suffer from phantom pain and who have not responded to other currently available treatments.

In that experiment, researchers from a collective of Scandinavian countries, and funded by Merck, followed more than 4,400 patients who had chest pain or had suffered a heart attack.

If future similar studies can further expand and eventually provide a brain - based predictive best - therapy option for individual patients, it would dramatically decrease unnecessary exposure of patients to ineffective therapies and decrease the duration and magnitude of pain suffering and opioid use, Baliki and Apkarian said.

SYMPTOMS: The patient had spent his last year confined to bed, suffering from intense, crippling joint pain.

Patients suffer from pain and deformities mostly in the hands and feet.

Shantanu Nundy recognized the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis when his 31 - year - old patient suffering from crippling hand pain checked into Mary's Center in Washington, D.C. Instead of immediately starting treatment, though, Nundy decided first to double - check his diagnosis using a smartphone app that helps with difficult medical cases by soliciting advice from doctors worldwide.

The standard of care is surgical resection, but even with surgical resection, most patients fail to regain their normal range of motion and often suffer from chronic pain and joint contractures,» explained Thomas A. Davis, PhD, Vice Deputy Chair of Research, Department of Surgery, Uniformed Services University, the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (Bethesda, MD), and the Naval Medical Research Center (Silver Spring, MD).

Patients who suffer from neuropathy; these sensations and feelings of pain are called allodynias and dyesthesias, respectively.

«Though many pain specialists have established clinical procedures for diagnosing fibromyalgia, the clinical label does not explain what is happening neurologically and it does not reflect the full individuality of patients» suffering,» said Tor Wager, director of the Cognitive and Affective Control Laboratory.

The report, requested by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), says it is possible to stem the still - escalating prevalence of opioid use disorder and other opioid - related harms without foreclosing access to opioids for patients suffering from pain whose providers have prescribed these drugs responsibly.

Roughly 15 % of people suffer relentless, long - term itch, often caused by diseases and medications; terminally ill cancer patients, for example, often experience such severe whole - body itch in response to morphine that many choose to live in pain rather than take the medication.

Dr Josie Billington, Deputy Researcher, Centre for Research into Reading, said: «Our study indicated that shared reading could potentially be an alternative to CBT in bringing into conscious awareness areas of emotional pain otherwise passively suffered by chronic pain patients.

The guidelines provide parameters regarding when clinicians should consider the possibility of ventriculitis (inflammation of the ventricles in the brain) or meningitis (inflammation of the lining of the brain or spinal cord) in patients who have cerebrospinal fluid shunts and drains (devices placed in the brain to relieve pressure due to fluid buildup), intrathecal drug pumps (for administration of pain medicine or other drugs into the spinal canal), deep brain stimulation hardware (medical devices that provide electrostimulation in the brain to treat Parkinson's disease or other neurological symptoms) or who have undergone neurosurgery or suffered from head trauma.

Other surveys show that approximately one third of adult Danes suffer from pain in their knees, and also that approximately 25 percent of the patients who have received new knees due to osteoarthritis of the kneecap also state that they have suffered from knee pain since adolescence.

«This study demonstrates that CRFA is an effective long - term therapeutic option for managing pain, and improving physical function and quality of life, for patients suffering from painful knee osteoarthritis when compared with intra-articular steroid injection,» according to the clinical trial report by Leonardo Kapural, MD, PhD, of the Center for Clinical Research, Winston - Salem, N.C., and colleagues.

As their novel technique for drug delivery is non-invasive and easy to use, the NUS team envisioned that the microneedles patch has great potential for applications in clinical and home care settings for the management of perioperative pain and chronic pain in patients suffering from conditions like diabetes and cancer.

«This study and our clinical work in TPS suggest that that there is a powerful role for interventions other than the prescription pad in helping patients manage their pain and suffering, taper their opioids and lead rewarding lives.»

Only 15 % of patients suffering from lower back pain get a specific diagnosis, meaning that up to 85 % of patients have to settle for a non-specific one..

The TOPCARE (Transforming Opioid Prescribing in Primary Care) model brings a nurse care manager into the equation to discuss treatment plans with patients suffering from chronic pain, and to ensure monitoring occurs; provides online resources to assist prescribers, and coordinates an individualized educational session for primary care providers conducted by an expert in opioid prescribing.

Results reveal that on average, the 13 states allowing the use of medical marijuana had a 24.8 percent lower annual opioid overdose mortality rate after the laws were enacted than states without the laws, indicating that the alternative treatment may be safer for patients suffering from chronic pain related to cancer and other conditions.

It affects the large intestine and patients suffer from abdominal pain and altered bowel habits like diarrhea and constipation, which are often accompanied by chronic anxiety or depression.

In addition, the authors make several useful suggestions as to how these findings could be used to reduce readmissions — but an important question is how can the data be used to reduce the pain and suffering that complications cause for patients?

«For patients worldwide, hiding from the sun for fear of debilitating pain is a fact of life, and for the first time we have an effective treatment for those who suffer from this specific porphyria,» said lead study author Manisha Balwani, MD, Associate Professor of Genetics and Genomics Sciences and Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine.

«If we understand sunburn better, we can understand pain better because what plagues my patients day in and day out is what temporarily affects otherwise healthy people who suffer from sunburn.»

Clinicians should be aware of this and also consider that patients who arrive in the emergency department with signs of heart attacks, such as chest pain and breathlessness, but after a happy event or emotion, could be suffering from TTS just as much as a similar patient presenting after a negative emotional event.

Patients with CFS suffer from long - term fatigue and other symptoms such as cognitive difficulty and muscle pain; the cause is unknown.

With palliative care, said Morrison, «symptoms are better managed, families are better cared for, and patients have better quality of life» with reduced pain and suffering.

Clinicians must balance the goals of relieving pain and suffering while not harming the patient resulting in addiction and overdose.

As the disease progresses, patients lose the ability to control their motor functions and can barely walk properly, as well as suffering from pain.

Chikungunya is rarely fatal — of 52 patients who died, all but one were suffering from other diseases as well — but it can cause high fevers, rashes, and excruciating joint and muscle pains.

Joachim Fandrey, a physiologist at the University of Duisburg - Essen in Germany, adds that the results suggest that nitroglycerin patches, which have a long track record in treating chest pain in heart disease patients, might boost EPO production in people suffering from anemia due to kidney disease or cancer.

Patients often suffer from pain and fractures.

We are working with our partners to promote legislative reforms to guarantee that all patients have access to affordable, effective pain medication to relieve the tragedy of needless suffering caused by undertreated cancer pain.»

«We're hopeful this technique will eventually alleviate pain and suffering, perhaps even save the lives, of DMD patients who have a wide range of mutations and, unfortunately, have had no other treatment options to eliminate the underlying cause of the disease.»