Diagnosis and treatment of low back pain

BW Koes, MW Van Tulder, S Thomas - Bmj, 2006 - bmj.com
… leg pain (sciatica). The most important symptoms of non-specific low back pain are pain and
… The diagnostic and therapeutic management of patients with low back pain has long been …

Pain–an overview

R Melzack - Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
pain receptors and fibers which, in turn, project pain impulses through a spinal pain pathway
to a pain … % of amputees had phantom limb pain a week after amputation, and that 60% had …

[HTML][HTML] Management of pain in the emergency department

SH Thomas - International Scholarly Research Notices, 2013 - hindawi.com
… Addressing patient’s pain is one of the most … pain is the impetus for an ED visit, the significance
of pain relief to individual patients (and family), and the relative ease with which pain can …

Mirror treatment of lower limb phantom pain: a case study

M MacLachlan, D McDonald… - Disability and rehabilitation, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
pain. Despite having the concern that any treatment that focused Alan’s attention on his phantom
pain … a ‘relatively new treatment for phantom pain using the mirror reflection of your leg’. …

Outcome of low back pain in general practice: a prospective study

PR Croft, GJ Macfarlane, AC Papageorgiou, E Thomas… - Bmj, 1998 - bmj.com
pain had been missed. We excluded patients with pain limited to the thoracic region of the
back or with pain … recruited those with generalised pain that included pain in the lower back. …

A survey of chronic pain in an elderly population

R Roy, M Thomas - Canadian Family Physician, 1986 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
pain were not being treated for their pain. Pain levels For the purpose of this analysis, pain
… reported low levels of pain, 32% reported a moderate level of pain, and 18% felt that their …

Improved cosmological constraints from new, old, and combined supernova data sets

…, NB Suntzeff, N Suzuki, RC Thomas… - The Astrophysical …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new compilation of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), a new data set of low-redshift
nearby-Hubble-flow SNe, and new analysis procedures to work with these heterogeneous …

Anticipating and experiencing post‐operative pain: the patients' perspective

ECJ Carr, VJ Thomas - Journal of Clinical Nursing, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
• This study uses a qualitative approach to explore patients' expectations and experiences of
pain, factors contributing to the effective/ineffective management of their pain and strategies …

A consensus approach toward the standardization of back pain definitions for use in prevalence studies

…, K Burton, NE Foster, GJ Macfarlane, E Thomas… - Spine, 2008 - journals.lww.com
pain prevalence research and the primary care of back pain; hence, the intent was not to find
“the best” low back pain … back pain definitions. The goal was simply to bring leading back …

Phantom-limb pain as a perceptual correlate of cortical reorganization following arm amputation

H Flor, T Elbert, S Knecht, C Wienbruch, C Pantev… - Nature, 1995 - nature.com
… Theoretical and empirical work on chronic back pain 9,10 has revealed a positive … the
magnitude of pain, so we predicted that cortical reorganization and phantom-limb pain should be …