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Yoga is as effective in reducing knee pain in osteoarthritis as muscle-strengthening exercises, according to a new clinical ...
A research from scientists at McGill University in Canada revealed the kind of physical pains that topped the charts, showing ...
Exercise therapy is suggested as a first-line treatment to improve joint pain and loss of function caused by osteoarthritis ...
Among 146 subjects completing the study, the mean reduction in visual analogue pain intensity scores at 30 minutes was 43 mm for acetaminophen, 40 mm for morphine, and 27 mm for placebo.
J Rheumatol 34: 8–18 Researchers from the US have shown that the visual analog pain scale (VAS) is superior to the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36) scale for assessing ...
Research published in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine suggests that using potent synthetic opioids like sufentanil and remifentanil during surgery is associated with a poorer overall ...
Chest drains are routinely used after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lung resections to evacuate fluid and air from the pleural space.
This "randomized controlled clinical trial" (has anyone ever seen a randomized trial without a control group? - No, therefore, the correct term is "ramdomized clinical trial (RCT)") aimed to compare ...
Patients were followed using visual analogue pain scales (VAS), site specific validated outcome scores, and a Likert post-treatment scale at 6 weeks, 12 weeks, 6 months and a year. A decrease in VAS ...