Documents tagged 'Pain'
Which Medications Will Help My Arthritis Pain?
Author: Carol Bell 
Published: 16/11/2008
There are over one hundred different types of arthritis diseases, each one having its own list of causes, symptoms and intervention methods. Arthritis suffers are most likely to report pain as one of their symptoms. An arthritis sufferer must learn how to control this pain effectively. There...Symptoms, Causes And Treatments Used By A Cosmetic Dentist For TMJ Dysfunction
Author: Christine OKelly
Published: 15/11/2008
Temporo-Mandibular Joint or TMJ dysfunction involves pain, discomfort, and worn teeth because of a support problem with the bottom jaw. This joint is found where your lower jaw joins on to your skull. The problems start when the cartilage that cushions the joint or the muscles that give the area...Tools You Can Use to Strengthen Your Lower Back
Author: Richard Black
Published: 15/11/2008
Back pain is so common in most people\'s lives, they rarely even consider in a problem. But back pain is more than simply an inconvenience - it can cause your body to contort and twist in a number of different ways that, when you get older, will cause even greater back pain in the future and...How parents can gauge childrens’ pain
Author: Katte
Published: 15/11/2008
Experts have devised a way that parents can gauge the amount of pain their children are in - even when they can’t communicate it themselves. Children with severe learning or motor disabilities are often unable to describe how they are feeling, so parents and doctors have to try and assess how...Some of us are more sensitive to pain
Author: Katte
Published: 15/11/2008
A new brain-imaging study confirms that some people are much more sensitive to pain than others and should help doctors in calibrating patients’ descriptions of their pain. ’One of the most difficult aspects of treating pain has been having confidence in the accuracy of patients’...Blood test could detect heart attack early
Author: Katte
Published: 15/11/2008
Contact: Michael Bernstein m_bernstein@acs.org 202-872-6042 American Chemical Society Researchers in Canada are developing a new blood test that they say shows promise of becoming a quicker and more accurate method for diagnosing whether patients with chest pain are having a heart attack. The...Computer controls pain relief
Author: Katte
Published: 15/11/2008
Doctors at a Scottish hospital say they can give patients almost entirely pain-free major operations - by using computers to control levels of anaesthetic. The former HCI hospital in Clydebank is pioneering new techniques which are attracting worldwide interest. Anaesthetists normally have...Function of environment on development of pain system
Author: Katte
Published: 15/11/2008
Contrary to previous assumptions, recent findings indicate that experience-dependent mechanisms have a fundamental role for the proper development and function of the pain system. Tactile, or touch, information now appears to play a fundamental role in guiding the functional maturation of the...Gender differences in brain response to pain
Author: Katte
Published: 15/11/2008
Contact: Rachel Champeau rchampeau@support.ucla.edu 310-794-0777 University of California - Los Angeles A new UCLA study shows that different parts of the brain are stimulated in reaction to pain depending on gender. The research, which represents the largest gender-comparison study of its...Fatigue ’could signal heart attack’ in women
Author: Katte
Published: 15/11/2008
Excessive tiredness or trouble sleeping could indicate an impending heart attack in women, researchers say. A study in the journal Circulation looked at more than 500 women who had suffered heart attacks. About 70% had experienced unusually high levels of fatigue and 48% had reported...
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