Articles: pain-management-methods.
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Pain is one of the most common symptoms in cancer patients, and its management is a significant goal in supportive care. Many barriers interfere with its effective control. Nowadays, with a shift in care from the hospital to the home, there is an increasing tendency to involve family caregivers in pain management. Their beliefs may act as barriers to effective pain management in these homecare settings. This study aimed to validate and explore these beliefs using Barriers Questionnaire II (BQ II). ⋯ This is the first time BQ II has been used in this population. The results are consistent with the international academic studies in this area, but more research is needed. BQ II was found to be a valid and reliable scale for defining caregiver attitudes and barriers to effective pain management in homecare settings. Health professional training, interventions targeted to caregivers and trained home care teams may improve the quality of cancer care in these settings.
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Musculoskelet Sci Pract · Dec 2018
A proposed clinical conceptual model for the physiotherapy management of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS).
There are no validated clinical models to show a reliable pathway of guaranteeing an effective recovery for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) with physiotherapy management. An array of medical, psychological and physiotherapy intervention methods show weak benefit. Spearman correlations, with significance p < 0.05, from an observational, prospective, longitudinal, multi-centre study of regional standard physiotherapy CRPS management showed complete recovery to be potentially associated with baseline factors of: better mental health; better functional ability and quality of life; higher scores of extraversion personality trait; lower scores of intraversion personality trait; and interventions such as concurrent prescription of the anticonvulsant secondary analgesia group and a higher intensity of physiotherapy education intervention. These correlations were integrated with the literature evidence and the crux of previously suggested models to conceptualise a clinical model that can contribute to the broader knowledge of physiotherapy management in CRPS that should be tested with future research.
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Letter Case Reports Retracted Publication
Clinical experiences of pericapsular nerve group (PENG) block for hip surgery.
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Letter Case Reports Retracted Publication
Limitations of the Erector Spinae Plane (ESP) block for radical mastectomy.
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Letter Case Reports Retracted Publication
Erector spinae plane block for pain management of wide post-herpetic neuralgia.