Sentences with phrase «pain patients who»

Ginger Garner MPT, ATC, PYT, developed medical therapeutic yoga as a system for health care professionals after years of successful patient care with acute and chronic pain patients who fared better when she used yoga as a primary means for delivering rehabilitation.
I would advise anyone in a painful situation to get a good pain doctor because they arent afraid to write prescriptions for pain patients who really need it.
The idea that the mind has power over the body may be especially useful to chronic pain patients who often find themselves without satisfactory medical treatments.
They found that patients with chronic pain who used cannabis daily for one year, when carefully monitored, did not have an increase in serious adverse events compared to pain patients who did not use cannabis.
The «other victims» of the opioid epidemic are pain patients who need the drugs but can not now get them because of fears related to their use
«Studies of people with depression show they also have reduced gray matter, and this could contribute to the gray matter changes in pain patients who are depressed.

Not exact matches

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.
«Medical marijuana has become a very important part of their treatment program and pain management program,» said Connor, referencing patients who have cancer, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, or those requiring palliative care.
Respondents who had robotic surgeries reported less pain after a day and a week, and there were no differences between the two types of patients after 12 weeks when it came to sexual function or urinary control.
Subsys is meant to provide pain relief to cancer patients who are going through particularly excruciating pain episodes.
Patients threatened malpractice suits against doctors who did not prescribe pain medications liberally, and gave them bad marks on the «patient satisfaction» surveys that, in some insurance programs, determine doctor compensation.
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.
Any patient who now enjoys good pain control by taking a sustained - release opioid owes her a debt of gratitude for her discovery of the importance of dosing opioids around - the - clock rather than «as needed» for pain.
Already a movement is under way to improve end - of - life care by educating health - care providers to respond better to the needs of dying patients, by creating new care settings or improving existing ones, by seeking changes in methods of paying for appropriate care, by educating the public through conferences, town meetings, television programming, and even Web sites (see www.careproject.net), by providing adequate relief of pain, by withholding or withdrawing treatments that only prolong dying, by keeping company with those who are lonely, and by being a resource of meaning and hope for those tempted to despair.
Steve added that this frustration may not just come from those in pain: «Quite often it's a relative or someone who is with them who might be frustrated on their behalf - it's recognition that there are a lot of pressures now on staff but also on patients
There is, admittedly, a difference between the elderly terminal patient in horrible pain who wants all pain to cease and the despondent teenager whose pain is one of low self - esteem.
With many dying patients, especially those who can not affirm a life after death, he will expect to share what he considers to be their justifiable anger and pain.
I am going to weigh in, being a catholic and the whole shabang... First of all this is not infringing on anyone's right to practice their religion... Requiring insurance companies to provide contraception for women does not mean the woman has to use it or purchase it... Catholic hospitals take federal funds for their patients, therefore they are not exempt from employment laws... If the Catholic Diocese doesn't want to provide the insurance claiming religious beliefs, then they can no longer accept federal funded patients... They also know that they will be subjected to discrimination lawsuits based hiring and religious discrimination — non-catholics work there, and therefore are being denied healthcare due to catholic beliefs... Majority if not all Catholic women do, have, or had used contraception in their lifetime... God does not nor does the bible say anything about contraception, since it had not been invented yet — so this is a man - made law, made by a bunch of men, who have never had a menstrual cycle — and the pain that comes with it....
In Ontario today, doctors who decline to euthanize their patients are required to provide an «effective referral»: They are obliged, on pain of losing their license to practice, to send a troubled patient to a doctor of lighter conscience who will kill that patient.
In Ontario today, doctors who decline to euthanize their patients are required to provide what is termed, in the Orwellian vocabulary of the culture of death, an «effective referral»: They are obliged, on pain of losing their license to practice, to send a troubled patient to a doctor of lighter conscience who will kill that patient.
It's about basic respect for laboring women as people and patients, not inanimate objects who should submit cheerfully to any pain (such as the chronic pain associated with my C - section scar) and any indignity at the hands of doctors who threaten and abuse their patients.
«Dr. Jerry» as his adolescent patients call him, is a young PhD who really relates to teens, speaks their lingo and has felt their pain.
One of the speakers at Veggie Fest, Dr. James Gruft, director and founder of From Pain to Wellness, LLC, and a vegetarian who is raising his 12 - year - old twins as vegetarian, says he has seen first - hand not only how healthy his children are, but how a change in diet improves his patients» nutrition while reducing their chronic pain.
It sucks that they don't work for everyone and I guarantee you that every nurse and doctor who was working with your friend had a lot of sympathy for her because it is absolutely no fun to see your patient in pain and to not be able to give her what she wanted.
Most patients with chronic back pain or people who just had a back surgery acknowledge that the Lavish pillow is crucial towards reducing pain and promoting recovery.
In New York, Cuomo signed the Compassionate Care Act in July 2014, which legalized medical marijuana for patients who are certified by medical practitioners as having «serious» conditions, including cancer, AIDS, severe chronic pain, severe nausea, and other ailments.
John Baron: «For the avoidance of doubt, let me absolutely clear: I believe that the compassionate approach for patients who are in severe pain, are terminally ill and have the support of their family would be to allow them to choose to die provided that the appropriate safeguards are in place.
Dr. Dan Lonergan, a pain specialist who also focuses on addiction, treats patient Jeff McCoy in June.
Then memories of the patient with shattered calf bone, the one who just had his leg amputated, the girl with dull and drowsy eyes, the youngster singing in delirium, young Destiny waiting to have his femur filled with iron, and of all the other patients who would spend Christmas and New Year Day at Igbobi in pains and anguish came to this reporter.
Cuomo is perpetuating the pain and suffering of seriously ill patients who would benefit from medical marijuana.
Saturday's four - hour training session at the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy is expected to provide assistance to physicians who may soon see patients returning from Dr. Gosy's practice and other area pain specialists who have closed their doors.
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.
«What is different in the brain about patients who have low back pain — is it decreasing gray matter?
Marijuana often is used to self treat chronic pain and, with 24 states legalizing medical use of the herb, the American Pain Society published guidance in The Journal of Pain for physicians caring for patients who use cannabis.
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.
Risk assessments are one of the few tools available for patients and physicians concerned about using opioids to manage debilitating pain during physical rehabilitation, said Richard T. Jermyn, DO, FAAPMR, who chairs the physical medicine and rehabilitation department at Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine.
Patients who received EAET had better outcomes — reduced widespread pain, physical impairment, attention and concentration problems, anxiety, and depression and more positive emotions and life satisfaction — than patients who received the education interPatients who received EAET had better outcomes — reduced widespread pain, physical impairment, attention and concentration problems, anxiety, and depression and more positive emotions and life satisfaction — than patients who received the education interpatients who received the education intervention.
There's good news from UMass Medical School for overweight people with painfully arthritic hips and knees: A new study finds that obese patients who underwent knee or hip replacement surgery reported virtually the same pain relief and improved function as normal - weight joint replacement patients six months after surgery.
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.
New research presented today at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), found that 70 percent of patients consider sexual activity «relevant» to their life quality, and patients who receive surgical treatment for spinal spondylolisthesis (DS) and spinal stenosis (SS)-- common degenerative conditions most often occurring in older adults — were twice as likely to report no pain during sex.
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.
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.
One of Biller's patients, who asked to remain anonymous, described such a headache this way: «All of a sudden, there was a terrific pain in the back of my head.
But the opioid reduction didn't leave patients who had undergone a routine surgery with more pain, the team reports online December 6 in JAMA Surgery.
Do hyperalgesic patients who manage to quit taking opioids ultimately see improvements in pain?
As a pain specialist at a large teaching hospital, Mao frequently encounters patients who can't find relief from increasing opioid doses and who tell him that their pain has become worse — diffuse, nagging, and harder to pinpoint.
The second, published in 2013, found that vaporized cannabis, even in low doses, relieved pain in a similar group of patients who hadn't responded to traditional medications, including opioid analgesics.
«We'll certainly be looking at whether patients who manage their pain with cannabis can reduce their opioid doses over time or even wean themselves off opioids entirely,» he says.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z