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Digital health interventions may improve different behaviours. However, the rapid proliferation of technological solutions often does not allow for a correct assessment of the quality of the tools. This study aims to review and assess the quality of...

Background and Objectives: Pain is a multidimensional phenomenon with a wide range regarding the location, intensity and quality. Patients with chronic pain, in particular those suffering from mixed pain, often present a special challenge. The PainDE...

Background: The all-too-frequent failure to rate pain intensity, resulting in the lack of or inadequacy of pain management, has long ceased to be an exclusive problem of the young patient, becoming a major public health concern. This study aimed to e...

Background: As a subjective sensation, pain is difficult to evaluate objectively. The assessment of pain degree is largely dependent on subjective methods such as the numeric rating scale (NRS). The PainVision^TM system has recently been introduced as...

Objective: Pain response scores were evaluated by associating pain biomarkers with several parameters affecting radiotherapy (RT)-induced pain response in patients with bone metastases. Methods: A newly developed ‘revised pain and response scal...

Ultrasound (US)-guided cervical selective nerve root block (CSNRB) procedures are increasingly being performed as an alternative to conventional fluoroscopy (FL)-guided epidural injections for the treatment of cervical radicular pain. The aim of this...

Background/Objectives: Cervical spondylosis is a cause of recurrent neck pain, disability, and poor quality of life (QoL). This study aimed to examine the relationships among pain intensity, neck disability, functional performance, body mass index, a...

Background: Sleeve gastrectomy is the most common bariatric procedure worldwide, yet postoperative pain management remains a concern. This study aimed to compare pain medication usage and pain scores between laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) and...

Background: Joint replacement surgeries have been known to be some of the most painful surgical procedures. Therefore, the options for postoperative pain management are of great importance for patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Despit...

The intake of specific collagen peptides (SCPs) has been shown to decrease activity-related knee pain in young, physically active adults. This trial investigated the effect of a 12-week SCP supplementation in a wider age range of healthy men and wome...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to overcrowding in many emergency departments (EDs). The present single-center, prospective, interventional study (conducted at Bichat University Medical Center (Paris, France)) was designed to...

Background and Objectives: Prostatectomy is a common surgical procedure for prostate cancer, the most frequently diagnosed cancer in the male population. The choice of anaesthetic technique has a significant impact on postoperative pain management. T...

Disease or acquired damage to the central nervous system frequently causes disabling spasticity and central neuropathic pain (NP), both of which are frequent in multiple sclerosis (MS) and spinal cord injury (SCI). Patients with MS and SCI often requ...

Background/Objectives: Natural-origin PN HPT™ (Polynucleotides High Purification Technology) protect and revitalize chondrocytes, synoviocytes, and cartilage with a regenerative medicine perspective following intra-articular injection. This six...

Fibromyalgia (FM) is characterized by persistent widespread pain that severely impacts quality of life. Immersive virtual reality-based exercise (iVRE) is emerging as a therapeutic modality for chronic pain management. However, research on iVRE in FM...

Background/Objectives: Precisely selected patients require vitreoretinal surgeries (VRS) performed under general anesthesia (GA) when intravenous rescue opioid analgesics (IROA) are administered intraoperatively, despite a risk of adverse events, to...

Gastritis is a progressive disease that evolves from a non-atrophic to atrophic state and progresses through intestinal metaplasia, with some cases leading eventually to gastric cancer. Since gastritis by definition is an inflammatory process of the...

Subjective pain assessment in cattle is contingent upon the observer’s experience and attitude. Studies of pain assessment in cattle by veterinarians and farmers using different pain scales have been published. This systematic review and meta-a...

Background: Chronic lateral epicondylitis (LE), also known as tennis elbow, affects 1–3% of the population, primarily those over 40 years old. Most cases resolve with conservative treatments, but some require more advanced interventions. Extrac...

Background and Objectives: The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the effect of lumbar sympathetic block (LSB) on pain scores, Fontaine Classification, and collateral perfusion status in patients with lower extremity peripheral artery di...

One of the most representative symptoms during childbirth is pain, which is one of the most prominent concerns of pregnant women. There are different instruments to assess pain, all of which require interrupting the woman, thus interfering with the i...

Background: Evaluation of a specific and dynamic pain, such as labor pain, with a situation-specific measurement tool will increase the quality of care given during childbirth. The Rating Scale of Pain Expression during Childbirth (ESVADOPA) is a sit...

Background/Objectives: Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a primary pain condition that can develop in a limb after a trauma. Although the condition is rare, it may cause lifelong pain and disability. Evidence-based treatments are limited. Neur...

Smartphone apps for self-management are valuable tools to help manage low back pain (LBP) patients. The purposes of this systematic review were to (a) summarize the available studies on the efficacy of smartphone apps for self-management of LBP and (...

Background/Objectives: Intolerable postoperative pain perception (IPPP) may occur in patients undergoing vitreoretinal surgery (VRS), while general anesthesia (GA) is often preferred over regional techniques due to multiple contraindications. Intraop...

Background/Objectives: Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) remains a frequent and clinically relevant complication following open lumbar discectomy (OLD) under general anesthesia. The present study represents a secondary, post hoc analysis of a...

Background: The concept of virtual reality (VR)-based rehabilitation therapy for treating people with low back pain is of growing research interest. However, the effectiveness of such therapy for pain reduction in clinical settings remains controvers...

Background: The Psychache Scale (PS) is the most widely used scale to measure psychological pain due to its ease of application, favorable evidence of predictive validity, and adequate psychometric properties from the CTT (Classical Test Theory) appr...

Background/Objectives: Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) are common after general anesthesia (GA) and, in patients undergoing vitreoretinal surgery, may be triggered by the oculocardiac reflex (OCR) leading to the oculoemetic reflex (OER). Ina...

Background/Objectives: Some patients undergoing vitreoretinal surgery (VRS) require general anesthesia (GA), despite the possibility of developing intolerable postoperative pain perception (IPPP). Intraoperative rescue opioid analgesia (IROA) adminis...

Physical activity is critical to functional rehabilitation for youth with chronic pain, which may be especially true for those with co-occurring obesity. To facilitate the development of physical activity interventions for youth with chronic pain, th...

Postoperative pain is the most common form of acute pain. Nurses contribute to effective pain management with their knowledge and skills. The aims of this research were to examine differences between nurses’ assessments and patients’ self...

Chronic pain impacts one in five Americans and is difficult to manage, costing ~USD 600 billion annually. The subjective experience of pain is a complex processing of central nervous system input. Recent advances in magnetic resonance imaging reveale...

Background and Objectives: Osteoporotic vertebral fractures in older patients cause lower back pain and abnormal posture, resulting in impaired activities of daily living (ADLs). Assessing pain using self-reported assessment tools is difficult, espec...

Pain assessment in children can be extremely challenging. Most professional bodies recommend that parents or carers should be involved with their child’s pain assessment; but the evidence that parents can accurately report pain on behalf of their chi...

Stress, anxiety, and post-surgical chest pain are common problems among patients with thoracic surgical pathology. The way in which psychological distress is managed—the coping style—can influence the postsurgical evolution and quality of life of pat...

The detection of pain in persons with advanced dementia is challenging due to their inability to verbally articulate the pain they are experiencing. Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia (PAINAD) is an observer-rated pain assessment tool developed bas...

(1) Background: Randomized controlled trials and real-life studies demonstrated the efficacy of OnabotulinumtoxinA (OBT-A) for CM prevention. However, no studies specifically addressed its effect on pain’s quantitative intensity and qualitative...

This study aimed to investigate the effects of sling-based thoracic active exercise on pain, function, and quality of life in female patients with neck pain. A total of 27 female patients with neck pain were divided into the sling-based thoracic acti...

The aim of this cross-sectional study was to explore the spatial extent of pain and its association with clinical symptoms, psychological features, and pain sensitization in people with frozen shoulder (FS). Forty-eight individuals with FS completed...

Background: Chronic pain is prevalent among the elderly and significantly affects their quality of life (QoL). Pain intensity scales are crucial tools in evaluating the severity of pain and tailoring management strategies. This study investigates the...

Background: Pain in hospitalized adults is underestimated and undervalued. The aim of this study was to evaluate pain prevalence and satisfaction with the hospital’s pain management among patients attending a tertiary university hospital. Predi...

Background: Chronic pain, which affects over 50 million adults in the United States, has stimulated growing interest in natural and nutrition-based remedies as adjuncts to pharmacologic therapies. Evidence suggests that turmeric and related extracts...

The aim of the present study was to test a new topical anesthetic gel with a different formulation (10% lidocaine, 10% prilocaine) to analyze its effectiveness in pain control, during the subsequent injection of local anesthetic, and the presence of...

The pain experienced by paediatric patients is rarely evaluated in emergency departments. The aim of the present study was to compare the degree of conformity in patients’ pain severity when assessed by themselves (if possible), their parents a...

Pain assessment guides decision-making in pain management and improves animal welfare. We aimed to investigate the reliability and validity of the UNESP-Botucatu cattle pain scale (UCAPS) and the cow pain scale (CPS) for postoperative pain assessment...

Background: Chronic pain is a serious health issue associated with significant functional and emotional impairment. Chronic pain acceptance, which can be described as engaging in valued activities despite ongoing pain, is associated with better psych...

The differences in analgesic effects of botulinum toxin type A were compared in 28 patients with trigeminal neuralgia, 53 patients with myofascial temporomandibular disorders, and 89 patients with the jaw closing oromandibular dystonia. The patients...

Accurate assessment of pain by health-care professionals is essential to ensure optimal management of pain. An under-researched area is whether personality characteristics affect perception of pain in others. The aims were (a) to determine whether in...

Background: Although pain is common in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and an effectively treatable symptom, it is widely under-recognized and undertreated. This study investigates epidemiological and clinical characteristics of pain, its impact...