Trigeminal neuralgia or tic douloureux is sometimes described as the most excruciating pain known to humanity. The pain typically involves the lower face and jaw, although sometimes it affects the area around the nose and above the eye. The pain is usually limited to one side of the face. The intense, stabbing, electric shock-like pain […]
Rescue workers do suffer long-term health consequences as a result of their occupation.
Rescue Health Consequences
Hensel reported on a problem suffered after disasters by those who helped save lives during the incident.
Dutch researchers followed a group of emergency workers who were on the scene of a fireworks depot explosion in 2000.
The rescue workers called in sick […]
NEW DELHI: An acute ankle and knee pain that refused to go for a decade, but was miraculously cured by non-invasive electromagnetic therapy, has prompted an NRI to bring the Scandinavian pain relief technique to India.
Sudhir Kashyap, a 62-year-old Sweden-based businessman, has brought to India the Pulsating Electro Magnetic Field (PEMF) therapy, which sends magnetic […]
Recent statistics indicate that one in five people worldwide suffer from moderate to severe chronic pain and that one in three are unable or less able to maintain an independent lifestyle due to their pain. The trauma of battle, attack by a predator, and even everyday stress often reduce the perception of pain. This phenomenon, […]
US firm Skinvisible last week announced that its polymer-based delivery system has been licensed to pain relief company DRJ for use in a new topical analgesic product.
DRJ will be using the delivery system to extend its range of ‘Stopain’ products with a new cream formulation incorporating Skinvisible’s Invisicare delivery technology.
Adding Invisicare to the product will […]
Johan Santana slings fiery fastballs for the Minnesota Twins for a living. A two-time Cy Young Award winner, he’s a superstar pitcher whose name instills fear in opposing batters.
Off the field, Santana made a decision that’s as baffling as his best pitch, the changeup: He just signed an endorsement deal with J.R. Watkins Apothecary Red […]
It’s the old story: Baby gets shots. Baby howls.
But increasingly, pediatricians and researchers say it doesn’t have to be that bad. There’s a growing body of evidence that relatively simple and inexpensive pain-management techniques can ease the trauma of medical procedures, including shots, for infants and children. And more doctors and hospitals are taking notice […]
A couple caught growing £7,000-worth of cannabis were spared jail after telling a judge they used it to battle ME and alcoholism.
Stephen Clarke, 41,and partner Angela Moore, 40, said they needed the drug for medicinal use for ME and alcoholism respectively after police found 69 plants being grown in the garage of a home in […]
Researchers have called for a national database to be set up to identify major complications arising from epidural pain relief after a small number of serious problems were identified during a six-year UK study, according to the April issue of Anaesthesia.
They discovered that 12 of the 8,100 people studied developed major complications after receiving epidural […]