pain

Telephone Triage

...ectronic format to help sort symptoms, from “chest pain to chicken pox”. Telephone triage involves ranking clients' health problems according to their urgency, educating and advising clients, and making safe, effective, and appropriate dispositions--all by telephone. It may include everything from disease...

Somatic dysfunction

...py resulted in equivalent resolution of lower back pain in a nearly identical time frame. The difference was that those receiving OMM required less pharmaceutical intervention. The advantage of OMM was diminution of adverse drug reactions while the disadvantage was the greater amount of physician time req...

Phantom pain

...e has been tagged since January 2007 . Phantom pain , also called deafferentation pain , anesthesia dolorosa , or denervation pain , is pain that is felt in a part of the body (usuall...

Nuclear medicine

...inistered to treat disease or provide palliative pain relief. For example, administration of Iodine-131 is often used for the treatment of thyrotoxicosis and thyroid cancer . Nuclear medicine differ from most other imaging modalities in that the tests primarily show the physiological function of...

Medicine

...modern branch of clinical medicine that deals with pain and symptom relief and emotional support in patients with terminal illnesses including cancer and heart failure . Pediatrics (AE) or paediatrics (BE) is devoted to the care of infants, children, and adolescents. Like internal medicine, th...

Pathology

...varices Stomach Peptic ulcer - Abdominal pain - Stomach cancer - Non-ulcer dyspepsia - Gastroparesis - Abdominal angina - Malabsorption (e.g. celiac disease , giardiasis ) - Pyloric stenosis Small intestine Peptic ulcer - Intussusception - Malabsorption (e.g. coeliac...

Ganglion cyst

...mitations of movement and can also cause weakness, pain and paraesthesia (pins and needles) if they press on adjacent nerves. Treatment Frequently, the cysts will disappear over time, so in cases of small cysts that do not cause other symptoms, no therapy is necessary. If a ganglion cyst is symp...

Extracorporeal shockwave therapy

... chronic pain, the brain has "forgotten" about the pain and is doing nothing to heal the area. By having s...he area to promote healing. For treatment of heel pain the FDA study criteria is quite specific. A person has had to have experienced heel pain for at leas...

Fat transfer

...paration process clears the donor fat of blood , pain killers and other unwanted ingredients that could cause infections or other undesirable side effects . Moreover, some physicians have found that human fat outside the body is incredibly delicate. One researcher (Mendieta) found that, to obtain vi...

CankerMelts

...tract, with collagen added which may help soothe pain and accelerate healing. CankerMelts is an all-natu...sity of Washington found that CankerMelts relieves pain and reduces the healing time of canker sores from 1-2 weeks to 1-5 days. Active ingredient Glycyrrh...