chronic forehead pain referred from the neck

... low-back pain and diabetes The objective of the present study was to add evidence to the validation of the Comprehensive ICF Core Set for CWP from the perspective of patients with FM The specific ... [29,30] Pain proved to be the central topic reported by patients, with a total of 159 concepts linked to the ICF Core Set category sensation of pain (b280) Apart from pain, the most outstanding theme ... used for the qualitative data analysis (see Table 2) In the first step, the transcripts of the focus groups were read through to gain an overview of the collected data In the second step, the data...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:20

... acute and subacute neck pain and, therefore, there is a lack of evidence to determine if the treatment of subacute neck pain could reduce the occurrence of chronic neck pain The category of subacute ... uncertainty of the results obtained in the limited number of studies of manipulation and mobilisation for neck pain, further studies are needed to compare the different therapies available for neck pain ... stopped the trial The purposes of the study were then to (1) describe the trial protocol, (2) report on the results obtained for relative effectiveness of the three types of manual therapy and their...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... location of pain • the characteristics/a description of the pain • the severity/intensity of the pain • the duration of the pain • any aggravating factors • any relieving factors • the effect of pain ... understanding of their condition • what the pain means to the individual and their family • how the pain may impact upon relationships within the patient’s family • whether the pain influences the patient’s ... breakthrough pain include: • the presence of breakthrough pain • the frequency and number of episodes per day • the duration, with the time in minutes • the intensity and the time to peak in severity • the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 21:20

... the Schwartz formula and dramatically improved the precision, bias, and sensitivity by reducing the constant from 0.55 to 0.47 At enrollment into CkiD, and using a measured GFR derived from the ... items pertaining to sleep and fatigue from the PedsQL scale and a CKD-related symptoms list adapted from the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) study The PedsQL data showed that overall, ... follow-up rates, and the rates of reaching renal replacement therapy in the first few years of the cohort study We estimated that by the end of the follow-up period, we would have approximately 70%...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20

... participate in the study was sought from all subjects Chronic widespread pain group This group of subjects comprised those with chronic widespread pain, classified according to the American College ... have had an impact on the accuracy of the findings More importantly, subjects with chronic widespread pain, when compared to pain free controls, have increased rates of other symptoms, including ... hyperactive HPA responses [7,8,12,13] The nature of the relationship between chronic widespread pain and HPA axis function is therefore unclear and remains to be clarified The studies discussed above were...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:23

... candidate criteria The rationale behind this approach is derived from the hypothesis that the physician at the time of a disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) prescription assumes the patient ... designer of the study and helped draft the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements The authors thank the patients for participating in this study, the Norwegian ... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol 11 No Mjaavatten et al often consider the fulfilment of these criteria when evaluating the diagnosis and/or prognosis in their arthritis patients [6]...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... vasodilator therapy, with good effect Given the variable arterial structure of these channels and their intramural location (exposed therefore to the pulsatile flow within the cardiac cycle), the rationale ... failed to visualize the entire length of the communications joining the coronary arteries to the cavity of the left ventricle The right coronary artery was also affected by the same phenomenon, ... which due to their rarity, have appeared sporadically over the last 25 years [7] Said and van der Werf, nonetheless, recently gathered information on 20 cases collated from across the Netherlands...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 10:22

... on the risk of chronic diseases and the ability of countries to respond to them Appendices Appendix Chronic diseases are often referred to as 'non communicable diseases' to distinguish them from ... lie beyond the reach of policies and services Furthermore the interaction between well-intentioned policy and health services on the one hand, and patients and their families on the other is seldom ... advocacy groups for the chronically ill They indicate the 'knowledge broker' role of the mass media, and popu- Page of lar community opinion leaders - locating these against the backdrop of wider...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... membrane, finding their way from the region of the future coccyx via the region of the future pelvic walls, to the region of the lower abdominal wall [2] In normal rib development, the posterior ... reflect the sites of attachment in the pelvis, for example, at the coccyx, the pelvic walls, and the inferior abdominal wall Therefore, it appears more likely that pelvic digits originate from an ... arising from the right iliac crest, terming this anomaly an 'iliac rib' This author located the anomaly to the mesenchymal stage of bone growth before the sixth week of fetal development [6], with the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:21

... to stop the convulsions and the pain as long as pressure was applied to the points (figure 2) The figure shows the point in the left hand that the patient Figure could press to stop the pain attacks ... therapeutic option for the management of atypical facial pain and chronic pain syndromes It is difficult to explain the mechanisms leading to the analgesic effect of botulinum toxin used in the ... A further point of interest is the correlation between the erythema in the affected area and the relief of this symptom by treatment with BTX-A Borodic et al [1] made the observation that the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:20

... JL and BL conceived the work; LE performed the analyses JL and LE wrote the core of the manuscript All authors contributed to the discussion All the authors read and approved the final manuscript ... Questionnaire The questionnaires used in the study have been described in detail elsewhere [6] In brief, the folder contained two questionnaires: 1) the Swedish Obstructive Lung Diseases in Northern ... occurred in 81.7% of the multi-symptom asthma group, 74.0% of the fewer-symptom asthma group, and 33.3% of the non-asthma population (Table 1) The frequency of nasal symptoms in the non-asthma, fewer-symptom...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:23

... 0.321) Safety Consistent with the results from the original analysis, the incidence of any AE was similar across the treatment arms, irrespective of GOLD stage The incidence of SAEs and fatal ... total number of events by the total time on treatment in years, then multiplying by 1000 To determine whether the treatment effects were consistent across severity groups, the interaction of treatment ... date there has been a paucity of information about the effectiveness of these agents in patients with GOLD stage II COPD, with the robustness of any clinical conclusions drawn being limited by the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... cavity and the thyroid gland compared to any of the other locations In contrast there were significantly more benign neoplasms located in the eyelid than in other of the locations (P < 0.001) The most ... included The most common locations of HNC were the oral cavity, eyelids, the nasal cavity, lips and the thyroid gland which together accounted for 92% of the total number of HNC in the DVCR (Table ... hospitals and from clinics both from the capital region, larger cities as well as from rural areas of Denmark The therapy utilised and cancer related euthanasia was also registered The registration...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... mean, the diaphragm, the rib cage, umm, is painful Participants also offered descriptions of other qualities of their cough, including whether the cough was productive or non-productive The majority ... frustration and worry about the implications of the intensity of their cough on their health Participants also discussed the ways in which their cough disrupted their work, causing them to regularly have ... severe the cough is, participants reported that they would not be able to report the exact number of coughs they had over the course of the day but preferred descriptive terms on a continuum from...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... informed of the purpose of the study and the rationale for the diagnostic classification system by the first author At a one-day workshop they had been instructed on the performance of the clinical ... could use the result of the classification in this information to the patient, or inform about their findings as they used to, patients were hence not blinded from their diagnosis, as in the normal ... either two chiropractors from the same clinic or one of the participating chiropractors and the first author Both clinicians were present during both the history and the physical examination The...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... based on data from the National Hospital Discharge Register for the period 1991 to 2005 showed a stable incidence [12] Taken together, the incidence of hospital admitted head injuries in the Nordic ... 283,317 of these inhabitants (Statistics of Norway, 2003) The catchment area for the local hospital function is strictly defined to the city of Stavanger and 15 surrounding municipalities There are ... from different studies is difficult due to variability in inclusion criteria, admission policies and health care systems Caution must therefore be taken when interpreting these results from the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... been the case with the Maghreb, the Levant or the northern shore of the Mediterranean The Great Eurasian Plain The low-lying land that stretches almost without interruption from Britain to the ... belt This is the belt that stretches from Iberia and the Maghreb in the west to the Himalayas in the east Any Eurasian population to the north must have dispersed from this area Its southerly position ... another Yet, there are many examples in the literature of the spread of populations and species, which is a part of the dynamics of the natural world It seems unlikely that, in the history of the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:46

... reduce the generalizability of the results, and the findings may therefore not apply to the general population The present study and the study by Gjesdal and Bratberg [10] are to our knowledge the ... for these analyses Methodological issues The DWECS/DREAM study provides data from a large representative sample of the Danish working population Further, selection bias is minimized from the ... disability pensioned, emigrated or died They were excluded from the study, as they were no longer under risk of disability pension in the follow-up period from 1994 through 2004 This left a total...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 10:03

... action of CY in the stomach in this study was due to the activation of p53 and therefore leading to the suppression of the c-Myc/ODC pathway All these findings could explain the mechanism of ... restore their normal immune response (Fig 1) The present findings suggest that AP has immunostimulatory effect which can accelerate the recovery from leukopenia induced by CY and thereby shortens the ... drives the cell cycle from G0 to G1 [27] Furthermore, c-Myc is known to induce the transcriptional activity of ODC gene [29], which is involved in polyamine synthesis It is likely that the cell...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 10:19

... 119 this case the patient had a panuveitis, which recovered only after a combination of medical treatment and surgery, with a final visual acuity of 40% in the affected eye [1] The only case ... a 31 year-old farmer and his ocular manifestations are described in the specific section Figure 1: Geographical location of the province of Parma (Italy) References Mora P, Vecchi M, Barbera L,...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:11