Articles: pain-measurement.
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A prospective study. ⋯ 4.
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Pain assessment is a key component of good pain management in hospitalized infants. This study aimed to translate and adapt a version of pain measurement in infants, the Premature Infant Pain Profile Revised (PIPP-R) into Indonesian. ⋯ The Indonesian version of PIPP-R is easy to use and shows good psychometric properties. The use of this measuring instrument will help nurses and researchers obtain accurate infant pain intensity measurement values.
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Journal of wound care · Oct 2019
Observational StudyMeasuring sensory and pain thresholds by Semmes-Weinstein monofilaments in patients with leg ulcers: a pilot study.
Pain is a common and disabling symptom in patients with leg ulcers. Clinical quantification of pain mostly depends on subjective pain reports, which do not reveal underlying mechanisms. The aim of this pilot study is to identify mechanisms underlying the pain in patients with leg ulcers by documenting alterations in pain processing using quantitative sensory testing. ⋯ All patients showed diminished touch and/or protective sensation, which might have contributed to ulcer development via (partial) loss of protective function. The allodynia at the unaffected site suggests the presence of central sensitisation of pain processing.
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Letter Observational Study
Persistent postoperative pain after ambulatory paediatric surgery.
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Arrhythmic fluctuations in neural activity occur at many levels of the nervous system. Such activity does not have a characteristic temporal periodicity but can exhibit statistical similarities, most commonly power-law scaling behavior, which is indicative of scale-free dynamics. The recurrence of scaling laws across many different systems and its manifestation in behavior has prompted a search for unifying principles in human brain function. ⋯ Increases in the scaling exponent were positively correlated with fMRI signal variance and negatively correlated with the patient's self-reported headache intensity. These changes in the fMRI signal suggest that the temporal structure of amplitude fluctuations carries valuable information about the dynamic state of the underlying neuronal networks and ensuing sensory impairments in migraine. The demonstrated scaling laws pose a novel quantitative approach for examining clinically relevant interindividual variability in migraine and other pain disorders.