Sentences with phrase «be a painful procedure»

Not only is it a painful procedure, it also often results in overly aggressive cats or cats that spray indiscriminately.

Declawing is the amputation of all 10 front digits up the first joint, and it is a painful procedure that can leave cats in physical and mental pain for life.

Declawing is a painful procedure that involves amputation of the cat's toes up to the first joint — not just removal of the claw.

Because it is a painful procedure (it is actually an amputation comparable to cutting off each of your fingers at the first knuckle), we encourage you to be proactive and make sure adequate pain medication is provided during the procedure and for a few days following.

This is a painful procedure.

«In my opinion [declawing] should be a last resort as it is a painful procedure for the cat,» Gardsbane says.

Since onychectomy is a painful procedure which can sometimes take up to a year to fully recover from, it is common for cats to develop an incorrect association between the pain they feel and their litter pan.

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When I left my previous job, I underwent the painful, but necessary procedure of transferring my pension (yes, I was one of those people) into a registered RRSP and locked in retirement account (LIRA).

Now, women who need a late - term abortion because the fetus is so abnormal it can not survive more than a few hours, and will suffer a painful death if born alive, have to undergo a much more invasive, dangerous procedure.

The most dangerous prayer I pray (from time to time) is Psalm 139, «search me heart and thoughts, fin out if there is any evil in me...» I pray this with nervous expectation because I realised Im not very keen to always know whats really in my heart, God brings out things I would never associate with myself, things that I need to throw out, its horrifying but so refreshing in the long run.all these prayers bring painful results but like a colonic irrigation procedure (which I imagine is highly uncomfortable) the result is so worth it.thanks for this post.

Yes, I do know somebody who had one and it is a horrible, painful procedure, but it was either that or both the baby and mother would die.

However, if we are willing to go through some painful procedures, the promise will be fulfilled: we will eventually feel better.

The actually procedure wasn't that painful, I think the build up that I had created in my mind was the worse part, but I've been in a little pain since.

The Fortune 500 company — which runs the dining operations at thousands of schools and other institutions across the country — is tackling three key area where industrial agriculture has been badly failing in its production model: intensive confinement, painful procedures and practices, and unnaturally fast growth.

And preemies who had more exposure to painful medical procedures were even more likely to have a reduced response.

Consider sliding a pair on just before your baby has any procedures done that might be painful.

Avoid saying «This won't hurt» if the procedure is likely to be painful.

It really isn't a matter of will in the meaning we give to enduring painful procedures or even resist the chocolate of our dreams in our strive for better health, It's different.

Historically, doctors did not use any sort of anesthesia or pain relief prior to the procedure which can be quite painful.

Your child must be old enough and willing to go along with the procedure, which isn't painful but does feel strange at first.

She explained that massage helped Maria when undergoing a procedure that could be painful or frightening.

Many common NICU procedures are painful and can cause babies to try to push or turn away from anything that comes near their faces, even a pacifier, bottle, or mom's breast.

If your child needs painful procedures or long tests and is naturally anxious and worried, the PICU sedation staff, with the help of Child Life Specialists, provide helpful distractions before, during and after the procedure to calm and reassure your child.

«But, we were very surprised to find out that if babies experience more painful procedures early in life, their sense of gentle touch can be affected.»

In one study, newborns subjected to a painful blood collection procedure cried much less if they were permitted to breastfeed (Gray et al 2002).

Ask that painful procedures not be performed in the hospital bed or room, so the child does not link pain with these areas.

Reasons such as cleanliness or even sexual exploits at some time in the unforeseeable future are named as justification for this very painful procedure.

This often causes PTSD, and it's because of witnessing the baby experience multiple painful procedures and due to the fear and feelings of helplessness and sometimes guilt or poor treatment involved.

Furthermore, the procedure is not painful to your little one.

So, I think that I stressed out a lot more about it than, you know, how painful or how hard the actual procedure was.

We believe circumcising cuts off too much skin, that it impedes future sexual function, and that it's an unnecessarily painful procedure to inflict on a newborn.

If your child needs painful procedures or long tests and is naturally anxious and worried, our sedation staff, with the help of Child Life Specialists, are on hand to provide helpful distractions before, during and after the procedure to calm and reassure your child.

For premature babies, the experience of touch is mostly painful as they endure a barrage of medical procedures and tubes.

His lawyer claims the procedures are particularly painful due to the mistreatment Aamer suffered during his detainment in the US Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan.

«To subject the animals to unnecessary painful procedures to satisfy the owners» fancy is... reprehensible,» she said.

Neurological biomarkers can be studied using CSF, but this requires an invasive and painful lumbar puncture procedure.

Ince's new method to locate the seizure onset zone, reported in Brain, A Journal of Neurology, could save patients weeks of hospitalization, reduce complications and costs associated with what has traditionally been an arduous, and often painful, procedure.

While previous research supported the effectiveness of distraction during painful procedures, specifically needle pain, the investigators hypothesized that the new VR technology, an arguably more powerful and immersive intervention could be even more effective at reducing pain and anxiety.

Children undergo necessary yet painful and distressing medical procedures every day, but very few non-pharmaceutical interventions have been found to successfully manage the pain and anxiety associated with these procedures.

But within those limitations, the results suggest that PSR is an «under - utilized» procedure for patients with painful facial tics.

We know that repetitive, painful procedures in early infancy can impact brain development negatively — so why is pain in infants so undertreated?

They performed the heel prick procedure on the babies, which is used routinely to obtain blood samples, and applied low - intensity forces to the surfaces of their feet, a mildly painful experimental procedure that feels a bit like being gently poked with a blunt pencil.

Slater adds, «We will test whether babies who are given morphine experience less pain, and whether reducing pain during a painful eye exam improves stability of the heartbeat and breathing after the procedure.»

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / adventtr More than 382,000 people with kidney disease in the U.S. are on dialysis, a painful procedure that can wreak havoc on blood vessels due to constant jabs from large needles.

«The letter, which comes in response to an aggressive campaign by the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), claims that for more than 30 years researchers at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) have been «removing [macaques] from their mothers at birth and subjecting them to distressful and sometimes painful procedures that measure their anxiety and depression.»»

For his Ph.D., Franco has been researching the application of the «three R's» of animal experimentation — ethical principles first proposed in 1959 that include, where possible, «replacement» of the use of animals, «reduction» in the numbers of animals used, and «refinement» of animal husbandry and experimental procedures so that they are less painful and distressful to the animals.

The procedure «would have been quite painful,» says Benazzi, who added it was only partly successful (though at least the patient survived).

The women claim that the procedure for removing Norplant capsules is extremely painful and can cause scarring, in stark contrast to the simple, painless procedure they were led to expect.

«Noninvasive procedure is superior to steroid injection for painful knee osteoarthritis.»

In contrast, the median number of painful procedures was 32.