Sentences with phrase «measure pain levels»

The SPFES is a tool to measure pain levels based on facial expressions of sheep, and has been shown to recognise pain with high accuracy.

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They randomly assigned 150 first - time mothers to doula support or no doula support and used standard questionnaires to measure anxiety and pain levels.

Infants were also measured for pain levels using two separate scales.

According to a study published in the Online First edition of Anesthesiology, the official medical journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), the measure, called the nociception (pain) level index, allowed physicians to more accurately evaluate responses to painful stimulation in patients under general anesthesia, compared to traditional measures.

Levels of pain, assessment of general health, complications, the need for revision surgery, and mortality were measured postoperatively for up to four years.

Nitric oxide blood levels can be readily measured, he noted, and are more likely to drop in every patient during a pain crisis.

However, the research team expects that the release of this device will offer diabetics a pain - free way to measure their glucose levels with the blink of an eye.

The team then measured levels of β - endorphin, an opioid produced by the brain that's responsible for feelings of pleasure, and analyzed the rodents» tail positions and sensitivity to pain and temperature.

Participants reported their pain levels and disability levels after spinal manipulation, and researchers used ultrasound, MRI and other diagnostics to measure changes in each participant's back, includingmuscle activity, properties within the intervertebral discs, and spinal stiffness.

The altered PMC connectivity was associated with several phenotype measures, including pain and urologic symptom intensity, depression, anxiety, quality of relationships, and self - esteem levels in patients.

The key indicator for the study was the level of worst pain at the end of the first 6 weeks of treatment making use of the Brief Pain Inventory, a patient - reported measure.

The biologic effects of grounding the human body during sleep as measured by cortisol levels and subjective reporting of sleep, pain, and stress.

The 15 - items measure the level of somatic complaint (e.g., stomach pain, back pain, chest pain) over the past 4 weeks using a 3 - point scale (0 — 2: not bothered at all, bothered a little, and bothered a lot).

Our finding that the severity of depressive symptoms was a significant but relatively smaller contributor to physical disability in this sample (after controlling for the possible effects of age, sex and duration of pain) is consistent with findings of some previous studies of patients with chronic pain, but not with some treatment studies, which found that depression level contributed to less significant improvement in pain - related disability.11, 27 It is not surprising that cognitive, pain and behavioural variables accounted for more physical disability than depressive symptoms but it is notable that social support (as measured by the MPI), sense of control over life, and catastrophising did not significantly contribute to physical disability.