Sentences with phrase «pain patients experienced»

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Most endometriosis patients experience less pain after this surgery.

U.K. researchers in 2017 tested VR on patients undergoing dental treatments and found its use simulating a coastal scene reduced both experienced and recollected pain compared with no VR.

Patients who experienced the VR coastal scene reported having «significantly less pain» than those in the other two groups.

They are finding cancerous tumors that are in phase 0 and 1 in patients who are experiencing no pain, whereas most people are often diagnosed in phase 4, where pain is prevalent and the disease is more difficult to beat.

Say for example a patient in a remote location must undergo surgery without anesthesia, but with (for the sake of argument) the assurance that he will prevent his own death by undergoing great pains and also assuming that (for the sake of argument) he values his own life over and above any pain he may experience in this life.

The fact that a patient is experiencing pain, or hallucinations is not dismissed.

Traditional Buddhist stories abound of meditators being taken over by evil spirits, and contemporary psychological studies of mindfulness practice going back to the 1970s include patients who experienced hallucinations, psychotic episodes, depression and other mental trauma, as well as nerve pain and similar physical impacts.

If the pastor has a keen awareness of what we have come to regard as the interpersonal hurt of his patient; knows the desperate and yet fatal need of the patient to evade further pain, no matter by what means, and often by striking out and hurting loved ones; feels something of the almost overwhelming and intolerable anxiety the patient experiences; is not too shaken by the terror evoked through what Kierkegaard expressed as «shut - up - ness unfreely revealed»; and can accept the consequent intense feelings of guilt and shame which isolate the patient from himself, from others and from God, then his ministry has within it the necessary element for a supportive and creative experience for the patient.

With respect to these physicians» beliefs about the condition of PVSpatients, only 13 \ % think such patients are aware and have the experience of hunger and thirst; and only 30 \ % believe these patients feel pain.

Intrepid readers of SHS will recall that I wrote about a study — based on interviews with family members — showing that some patients received lethal prescriptions before experiencing serious symptoms — out of worry about future potential pain or loss of dignity.

Some minor side effects your patients could experience around the injection site include erythema (redness) or discoloration, itching, tenderness, pain, and swelling.

Some pain researchers, such as Michael Robinson of the University of Florida's Center for Pain Research and Behavioral Health, fear that using neuroimaging to diagnose chronic pain could distract physicians from dealing with the real problem: patients» experience of pain.

As the bone surfaces become less well protected by cartilage, the patient experiences pain upon weight bearing, including walking and standing.

This allows patients to undergo surgery and other procedures without the distress and pain they would otherwise experience.

Six months after treatments ended, patients were evaluated for the severity and extent of their pain and other problems that people with fibromyalgia often experience.

Patients can experience very real pain as a result of the nocebo effect and the expectation that drugs will cause harm.

But in his experience, only about a third of chronic pain patients are willing to try that.

«On the other hand,» Vollenweider adds, «the reduction of psychological pain and fear can facilitate the therapist - patient relationship and therefore the psychotherapeutic treatment of formative negative social experiences.»

The increased processing of and reactivity to social exclusion and social pain can increase the risk of patients withdrawing from social life and therefore experience less support.

If the findings hold true in humans, rapamycin could provide considerable benefits to spinal cord injury patients, up to 80 percent of whom experience clinically significant pain that is described as burning, stabbing, and electric shock - like.

Some sixty percent of patients that take opioid pain relievers experience constipation.

strong morphine - based painkillers — are widely prescribed to patients experiencing chronic severe pain.

Additionally, a substantial proportion of surgical patients experience chronic postoperative pain many months or even years after their original surgery.

No patients experienced a diminished pain - relieving effect as a result of the drug.

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.

For the 12 - week, $ 170,000 pilot project, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and will begin later this month, Young's team plans to recruit about 60 patients from the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center who are experiencing chronic pain, are on long - term opioid therapy, and have reported other behaviors — such as drug or alcohol abuse — that put them at high risk of addiction.

Peripheral nerve damage can be incredibly debilitating, with patients experiencing symptoms like pain, tingling, numbness or difficulty coordinating hands, feet, arms or legs.

«For the first time, this research shows that the hypersensitivity experienced by chronic pain patients may result from hypersensitive brain networks,» says co-senior author Richard Harris, Ph.D., associate professor of anesthesiology at Michigan Medicine with the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center.

Receiving an injection of a steroid and anesthetic is a common treatment for patients who are experiencing pain and inflammation in a joint, such as the hip, knee or shoulder.

Instead of focusing solely on reducing pain intensity, this psychological treatment encourages patients to engage in meaningful life activities, while promoting mindfulness and acceptance of difficult experiences such as pain.

«When individual patients came to see their back pain more positively they went on to experience less back - related disability.

Patients seen in the emergency department (ED) for chest pain who did not have a heart attack appeared to be at low risk of experiencing a heart attack during short - and longer - term follow - up and that risk was not affected by the initial diagnostic testing strategy, according to a study published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.

«Our results suggest that ongoing cytokine activation in the nervous system can contribute to the persistent symptoms of fatigue, pain, and cognitive dysfunction that patients sometimes experience despite having been treated for Lyme disease.»

«If [a patient] can accept his bodily homoerotic experience while staying connected to the therapist,» he wrote in «The Paradox of Self - Acceptance,» «the sexual feeling soon transforms into something else: the recognition of deeper, pain - generated emotional needs which have nothing to do with sexuality.»

The pathology found in the dorsal root ganglia and sensory nerves may explain the localized pain and motor deficits that Lyme disease patients experience close to the origin of the tick bite.

«When patients in pain want opioids, but don't get them — which is common — they may report a poor experience.

Niacin binds its receptors to skin immune cells, causing many of the symptoms patients experience: plethora (engorgement in skin vessels) and rubor (redness of the skin), as well as heat, swelling, pain, and frigor (cold / chills).

«Orthopaedic patients can experience a tremendous amount of pain with acute injuries and chronic conditions, and the treatment plan may involve opioid prescriptions for relief of discomfort,» says Dr. Mir.

An autoimmune disease, ulcerative colitis inflames the colon and leaves it rife with open sores; patients experience intense abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, rectal bleeding and weight loss.

Despite advances in pain management strategies, patients undergoing surgery often experience severe pain during the first three postoperative days.

For the first time, using sophisticated tools to measure skin color, blood flow, and temperature, researchers found that patients on the drug who had a very rapid onset of flushing — redness, pain, swelling, and heat to the face — rated the experience far more harshly than patients whose skin changed gradually, even to the point of extreme redness or change in temperature over time.

«Our study demonstrates the high functional disability experienced by migraine patients, compared to those with other pain conditions,» comments ASPS Member Surgeon William Gerald Austen, Jr, of Massachusetts General Hospital.

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

The single - center prospective study included 80 patients experiencing at least three months of low back pain due to a herniated disk that had not responded to conservative treatments including exercise and medication.

Lung cancer patients experience many debilitating symptoms including difficulty breathing, cough, fatigue, anxiety, depression, insomnia, and pain.

Patients with Crohn's disease, a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that causes abdominal pain and diarrhea, can also experience joint pain.

During this time, 22 of 30 patients experienced mild to moderate CRS, which included varying degrees of flu - like symptoms, with high fevers, nausea, and muscle pain.

Furthermore, nurses can also have become anxious in anticipation of treatment because they know the patient is going to experience pain at their hand.

It can not reduce or end the abdominal pain experienced by IBS patients.

«A lot of pain patients attribute their depression to their pain, but there's a lot of evidence that depression is playing a role in both the experience of pain and the odds of getting an opioid,» he said.