Sentences with phrase «help pain patients»

(GRZEGORZ SLEMP / ISTOCKPHOTO / HEALTH) Cognitive - behavioral therapy (CBT) can help pain patients end the downward spiral of negative thinking that worsens pain.

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Doctors are employing VR to train medical students in surgery, treat patients» pains and even help paraplegics regain body functions.

Morphine for pain management, Zofran to ease chemotherapy nausea, Amiodarone to stop life - threatening irregular heartbeats, and Valium to help highly anxious psychiatric patients calm down are just a few examples.

Rose explained that virtual reality technology can be used by medical practitioners to help patients deal with pain.

This could help to build customer satisfaction, as medical billing is a major pain point for patients.

New advances in the world of sensors, chips, hardware devices, swallowable cameras, 3D printing, artificial organs, data mining technologies, and more could help us diagnose diseases earlier, provide better treatments to patients, and even ease things like chronic pain and depression.

However, as my colleague Sean Williams recently noted, Insys does face problems with declining sales for Subsys, its sublingual spray for helping alleviate pain in cancer patients.

The purpose of therapy can be understood to be to help patients reconstruct their worlds in ways that bring them less conflict and pain.

Bruxism is just one reason why many patients subsequently seek help from an expert on facial pain like Steven B. Syrop DDS.

«Knee arthroscopy has not been shown to provide mid - or long - term help for these patients unless the patient has a complaint of new popping / catchin / pain associated with a twisting injury.

The Headache & Pain Program at Floating Hospital for Children in Boston helps patients as young as two years old to overcome their headache pain and enjoy life once again.

Doctor: Most c - section mothers will need some type of narcotic to go home with to help with their pain control, as most patients do after surgery.

Music helps the patient relax, making it easier for them to handle both pain and stress.

«God help us, we need to include the patients with severe chronic pain... to try to diminish the epidemic of opiate and heroin abuse,» Susan Rusinko, a multiple sclerosis patient from Cayuga County, said.

Gillibrand says similar guidelines for acute pain would help prevent putting patients at risk for addiction.

Her grandfather died at Calgary Hospital in the Bronx, where a nun would wheel around a bar cart at night, giving sick patients alcohol to help with pain, Savino said.

And the county has hosted programs for health providers to help them properly treat patients with chronic pain.

Lynne Puzo, nurse manager for the Spinal Cord Injury and Disorders Center, says the new therapy pool relieves pain for patients and helps them gain greater range of motion as they recover.

The VA's stepped approach includes dispensing pain medications to help wean patients off opioids, offering drug counseling, monitoring drug use, tracking medication use, offering outpatient programs and providing treatment and residential rehabilitation facilities, Drexler said.

The new therapy, which Lumley and co-developer Howard Schubiner, M.D., director of the Mind Body Medicine Program at Providence Hospital, call Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET), helps patients view their pain and other symptoms as stemming from changeable neural pathways in the brain that are strongly influenced by emotions.

While «chronic pain» was the leading medical condition treated at three of the clinics, one clinic had most of its patients seeking help with anxiety.

«While physicians have increasingly looked for medication alternatives to opioid pain medication like gabapentin and pregabalin to help these patients manage their pain, until now there has been no credible evidence as to whether or not these treatments are effective for this problem.»

As an osteopathic physician, I seek to prevent issues like addiction by partnering with patients to help us both understand if they are susceptible to prescription drug abuse,» said Dr. Jermyn, who focuses on acute and chronic pain management.

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.

Alford points out clinicians have limited tools at their disposal to help patients with severe chronic pain and the reimbursement system favors the use of medications alone, despite evidence supporting multimodal pain management.

«Monitoring, support help patients, primary care physicians dealing with chronic pain: Benefits found in careful monitoring of chronic pain patients, need for pain management within primary care.»

Although psychological approaches to help patients cope with pain have been used previously, what is novel in this study is the combined use of a specific psychological approach with mindfulness meditation training to help patients wean off high - doses of opioids and reduce their pain - related distress and disability.

Biologics are a lifeline for patients living with rheumatic disease, helping many to avoid pain, long - term disability, and life - threatening complications.

Their results should help doctors treat patient pain better and could assist researchers in developing experimental pain drugs.

Psychological support and new coping skills are helping patients at high risk of developing chronic pain and long - term, high - dose opioid use taper their opioids and rebuild their lives with activities that are meaningful and joyful to them.

«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.»

Dr Bishop added that to improve the effectiveness of treatment, acupuncturists should consider helping patients to think more positively about their back pain as part of their consultations.

«Aggressive testing provides no benefit to patients in ER with chest pain: CT scans, cardiac stress tests don't help in ruling out heart attack.»

Such opioids could help patients and doctors deal with drug tolerance, a frequent complication in which, over time, patients lose sensitivity to the pain - blocking properties of opioids and require higher doses to treat their pain.

The findings, published online ahead of print in the Annals of Internal Medicine, highlight the challenges faced by physicians to balance the known risks with potential benefits of prescription opioids for patients with chronic pain and reinforces the importance of developing tools that will help better identify and treat patients at risk for opioid use disorders and / or overdose.

So the cannabinoids in marijuana — primarily CBD and THC — might work together with opioids to give better pain relief, and that creates the possibility that marijuana might help patients get what Rachel wanted: comfort without the side effects of opioids.

For most patients, treatment is about helping them manage the pain until it passes.

While many pharmacological advances help some RA patients, residual pain and disability is common.

That includes boosting education for doctors and patients, improving research efforts to discover the various roots of chronic pain, and helping government agencies work together better to ensure that people can get access to medications that they need — as well as improve the odds that new ones will be available in the future.

A meta - analysis of dozens of studies of traditional Chinese medicine and other nonpharmacological interventions meant to improve patients» quality of life affirms that these approaches, on the whole, help alleviate depression, fatigue, pain, anxiety, insomnia and gastrointestinal problems in Chinese cancer patients.

«Virtual reality therapy helps decrease pain in hospitalized patients.»

Knowing how these small potassium channels work could help reduce the use of drugs in patients with chronic inflammatory pain.

Most patients will receive pain medication to help ease the procedures, but the efficacy of these medications can be undermined by the «wind - up phenomenon.»

For patients with sore throat, physicians should recommend analgesic therapy such as aspirin, acetaminophen, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and throat lozenges, which can help reduce pain.

Clinicians are also advised to help patients understand that successful opioid therapy includes not only reduced pain, but also improved function.

We're dedicated to helping patients keep cancer pain under control.

Any treatments accelerating this process would be of great value, as they would reduce pain and infection, and help patients back on their feet faster.

The team will help members of 12 such networks understand and use best practices for pain control in their patients, including the wisest use of opioid painkillers.

Investigators say the diagnostic technique has the potential to help reassure thousands of breast cancer patients that their cancers have not spread to other organs, and could help them avoid the risks and pain currently involved in direct inspections of lymph nodes for the presence of cancerous cells.

Comparing data between hospitals across Europe helps health care professionals better manage patients» pain.