Sentences with phrase «real pain patients»

The calamity of the 1990s opioid revolution is not so much that it turned real pain patients into junkies — although that did happen.

Not exact matches

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.

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

«The strength of our study is that it provides a real world assessment of how testing in patients with chest pain has an impact on the subsequent health of patients with chest pain,» said lead author Pamela Douglas, M.D., Geller Professor of Research in Cardiovascular Diseases at the Duke Clinical Research Institute.

'' This paper reports a controlled prospective unselected real - time comparison of human and computer - aided diagnosis in a series of 304 patients suffering from abdominal pain of acute onset.

The investigators randomly assigned each patient to one of three groups: one that received real chiropractic manipulation of the spine; one that received a sham version; and one that stuck with their usual pain - relieving medication.

When researchers pitted real chiropractic manipulation against a «sham» version, they found both were equally likely to ease patients» migraine pain.

(ISADORA WILLIAMS) On top of their daily struggle with pain, fibromyalgia patients are sometimes forced to fight another battle — convincing doctors, friends, coworkers, and others that their condition is real and that their pain is not all in their head.

But we learned years ago that ONE thing was crucial to our success in relieving our patient's pain: addressing the REAL cause of back and neck pain.

Many patients do not tell their doctors how much pain they are in, so «doctors generally should approach patients in pain with the assumption that underreporting is a real likelihood,» says Russell Portenoy, MD, chairman of the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City.

Thirty - eight percent of the patients who used the real device had no pain two hours later, compared to 22 % of those who used the sham device; they also showed greater pain relief 24 and 48 hours later.

As expected, one third of the patients getting the real surgery experienced resolution of their knee pain.

Other research has found that when patients believe in the effectiveness of a therapy — whether they get a vote of confidence from their practitioners or not — it can stimulate real physiological responses, including changes in heart rate, blood pressure, and even chemical activity in the brain that decreases pain, anxiety, and fatigue.

Like I said, over 20 years it won't matter a whole lot that you modestly overpaid for an asset... but short - term pain can be real when your money could go much further by being patient and seeking the best value / quality ratio available.

We have practitioner nurses in the NHS, something valued by most patients, freeing up highly skilled doctors to deal with real medical issues instead of a constant diet of aches and pains, and highways agency vehicles on the motorway network freeing up police officers to deal with crime instead of the after effects of a small accident.

Despite this lack of objective findings, there is no doubt that chronic pain patients are suffering and in distress, and that the disability they experience is real.