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Chronic pain treatment with spinal cord neurostimulation

The Guidelines Project, an initiative of the Brazilian Medical Association, aims to combine information from the medical field in order to standardize producers to assist the reasoning and decision-making of doctors. The information provided through this project must be assessed and criticized by the phy...

Comparative effectiveness of photobiomodulation and manual therapy alone or combined in TMD patients: a randomized clinical trial

Abstract The effectiveness of photobiomodulation (PBM) and manual therapy (MT), alone or combined (CT), were evaluated in pain intensity, mandibular movements, psychosocial aspects, and anxiety symptoms of temporomandibular disorder (TMD) patients. Fifty-one TMD patients were randomly assigned to three g...

Acupuntura para el tratamiento de la artritis reumatoide

Medwave; 18 (6), 2018
Resumen INTRODUCCIÓN: La artritis reumatoide es la artritis inflamatoria más común a nivel mundial. El dolor crónico lleva a pacientes a usar terapias complementarias, entre las cuales se ha planteado la acupuntura MÉTODOS: Para responder esta pregunta utilizamos Epistemonikos, la mayor base de dat...

La aguja seca es efectiva para el tratamiento de la cervicalgia crónica
Dry needling is effective for chronic neck pain

Dolor crónico del maxilar. presentación de un caso
Chronic pain of the maxilla. presentation of a case

Rev. inf. cient; 97 (1), 2018
Se presentó el caso de una paciente de 31 años de edad atendida en el Departamento de Patología bucal de la Universidad de San Gregorio de Portoviejo, Ecuador, con historia de dolor de más de dos años de duración en el maxilar derecho luego de una extracción dentaria. Se abordaron aspectos de la s...

Action of ear acupuncture in people with chronic pain in the spinal column: a randomized clinical trial

ABSTRACT Objectives: to assess the action of ear acupuncture on disability and tissue temperature in people with chronic pain in the spinal column. Method: a clinical trial with a sample of 110 people, randomized into three groups: Treatment, Placebo and Control. The assessment instruments were the Rol...

Cupping therapy and chronic back pain: systematic review and meta-analysis

ABSTRACT Objectives: to evaluate the evidence from the literature regarding the effects of cupping therapy on chronic back pain in adults, the most used outcomes to evaluate this condition, the protocol used to apply the intervention and to investigate the effectiveness of cupping therapy on the intensi...

Mirror therapy: A potential intervention for pain management

Summary The consequences of chronic pain and associated disabilities to the patient and to the health care system are well known. Medication is often the first treatment of choice for chronic pain, although side effects and high costs restrict long-term use. Inexpensive, safe and easy to self-administer ...

The evolving role of physical therapists in the long-term management of chronic low back pain: longitudinal care using assisted self-management strategies

ABSTRACT Background Longitudinal studies have shown that the symptoms of chronic low back pain (CLBP) will follow an episodic trajectory characterized by periods of high and low pain intensity that can persist for many years. There is a growing belief that the contemporary approach of limiting physical ...

Evaluation of embolization for periuterine varices involving chronic pelvic pain secondary to pelvic congestion syndrome

Clinics; 71 (12), 2016
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the clinical response and success rate after periuterine varices embolization in patients with chronic pelvic pain secondary to pelvic congestion syndrome and to report the safety of endovascular treatment and its rate of complications. METHODS: Retrospective cohort of patients u...