Aim I am going to compare and contrast 3 pain assessment tools‚ which would be appropriate for use in our clinical area‚ using current literature‚ benchmarks and practice guidelines. If pain is what the person tell he is (McCaffery M‚ Pasero‚ 1999) therefore pain assessment tools should be based on the patient’s own perception of their pain and its severity. But sometimes it ’s difficult to express the pain that we feel into words. Pain assessment tools have two main categories: multi-dimensional
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complaining of neck pain. HPI The patient tells me her symptoms started in early August. She had been away on vacation. She was sleeping on an air mattress. One night realized that the air mattress was not fully inflated‚ but slept anyway and she awoke the next morning‚ she was having some neck pain. She said initially she attributed just to sleeping wrong. She had pain for a couple of days. She took a few days worth of Advil and felt better. She said following that‚ the pain restarted without
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is a term used to describe the interconnected maze of nerves that carry the painful stimulus to all the different areas of the brain such as the central cortex‚ thalamus and limbic system that are involved in perceiving‚ reacting to and regulating pain. (Keefe‚ Abernethy & Campbell 2005‚ Melzack 2005‚ 2001‚ 1999‚ Moseley 2003) Essentially three different areas of information feed into the neuromatrix. 1. Sensory information from our physical body (skin‚ muscle‚ organs etc). 2. Cognitive
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Neck pain Neck pain can be caused by many conditions. Here I mainly talk about nonspecific neck pain. Nonspecific neck pain is the most common type of neck pain. Acute neck pain is a sudden-onset pain in the neck. It is often due to neck muscle strains‚ muscle spasm or tendon or ligament sprain. This can be caused by poor posture‚ sleep in an awkward position‚ carrying heavy loads‚ stay in one position for a prolonged period of time for example‚ working on desk‚ or driving for long period of time
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direct effects of the malignant tumors as well as the side effects of the aggressive treatments. The most common complaint among cancer patients is severe‚ chronic pain that affects their activities of daily life. Traditional pain relieving measures include opioid analgesics. While these drugs significantly reduce cancer-related pain‚ they are not without serious adverse effects. The effects of these medications are so daunting that patients often look
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woke up on my bed with my brother’s trying to comfort me. I felt the throbbing pain radiating around my head. It felt painful to even blinking because I was hit near my temporal bone.I was rushed to the hospital and given medications to subside the pain. Therefore‚ I only felt the pain for less than two hours. However‚ when I was released from the hospital I still felt a continual pain for about a week. Therefore‚ the pain lasted about a week in total. When I regain consciousness after getting hit‚
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The pain the amputees are complaining about is called phantom limb pain. This pain usually occurs right after an amputation of either an arm‚ leg‚ or a different body part (Flor‚ 2002). Some professionals believe that phantom pain is developed due to the disruption of the nerve activity. These nerves discharge at the place where they were severed during amputation; therefore‚ causing the amputee to feel the pain (King‚ 2006). Other theories believe that phantom pain is all made up in the head. The
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A Lesson Before Dying This book was a great read‚ with many revealing themes included in this book. Although the one that stood out the most was that you have to recognize injustice and know it isn’t right as well as facing responsibility‚ this theme is revealed throughout this novel. Throughout this novel the characters have developed as better people‚ even if the changes weren’t significant. Though the development of Grant and Jefferson In a Lesson Before dying‚ the reader learns that one has
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NAFTA: before and after NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) has been established for 17 years. While this may seem like a good things for all three countries‚ some have benefited more than others. Since NAFTA has occurred‚ the majority of Mexico has benefited greatly‚ unlike Canada‚ who has suffered because of these three things: price of objects‚ economy‚ and loss of jobs. Since NAFTA has been initiated‚ the price of objects has gone up in Mexico unlike in Canada the price has gone
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other loved ones in their final years. Now‚ add in a crippling chronic mind-altering pain that loved ones must face. It makes them cantankerous and melancholy‚ no current pain management techniques work. To smoke‚ or not to smoke? This is a question that many people in pain must ask themselves. With the fairly recent legalization and decriminalization of marijuana in many different states‚ a new alternative pain relief is in the hands of the many. With years of propaganda and fear tactics used
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