World Pain Management Drugs and Devices to Top $33 Billion by 2010.
NEW YORK, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- As the world population continues to age and the incidence of chronic pain conditions increases, the global market for pain management drugs and devices will continue to grow steadily from its expected year-end revenues of $26 billion to more than $33 billion in...

gumEase.
Longfellah International today announces gumEase, a cryoanesthesia pain management device. Used as a standalone or in conjunction with conventional anesthesia, gumEase provides pain relief without the side effects or complications of drugs. The easy-to-use, latex-free, disposable device is filled with a saline solution and frozen in a medical-grade freezer....

Acupuncture induced pneumothorax--a case report.
Abstract We report a significant complication of acupuncture in a 50 year old woman who developed a pneumothorax shortly after receiving acupuncture needling to her scapulothoracic region in a lateral oblique direction. As acupuncture is increasingly being used in pain management, physicians need to be aware of...

Advanced pain management and orthopaedic surgery: pain meets its match.
Pain might have finally met its match: Two prominent local physicians, orthopaedic surgeon James Shortt and interventional pain specialist Allen Baidey, have joined forces to provide relief to sufferers of everything from headaches and back pain to chronic arthritis and cancer. The pair offers decades of experience, a multidimensional...

Improving pain management.
Pain is something that affects approximately 75 million Americans and is the main reason that people seek healthcare services in the United States. Living with pain has many implications in this country. It is estimated that about four out of every ten Americans are unable to work as a...

The challenges of chronic pelvic pain: caring for women with chronic pelvic pain, who also have complex behavioural presentations, can be very challenging. A psychologist offers some practical advice for nurses.
Approximately 25 percent of women in New Zealand suffer from chronic pelvic pain, similar to the the rate in the United Kingdom of 24 percent. (1) Chronic pelvic pain in women is defined as pain in the pelvic region that has persisted for at least six months and is...

Chronic pain should be treated as a disease in its own right.
* Acceptance of the concept that chronic pain is a disease in its own right is already leading to new research into treatments aimed specifically at the physical, environmental and psychological components including genetic predisposition of chronic pain. Dr Michael J Cousins, who is Director of the...

Relationships among pain, sleep disturbances, and depressive symptoms in outpatients from a comprehensive cancer center.
Although cancer is curable in many, if not most cases, it continues to be feared. Research is producing insights and advances into the causes and cures for cancer, but the problem of symptom management continues. Symptoms from the disease and its treatment with resulting distress continue to be challenging...

Treating pain improves cognition in the elderly: it is not always appreciated that pain can increase anxiety, depression, and cognitive impairment.
ORLANDO -- Pain is a comorbid condition too often overlooked in the setting of geriatric psychiatry, despite the potential for better mental health outcomes when it is treated, Dr. Jordan F. Karp said at the annual meeting of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. "I don't think...

Effect of intraarticular injection of lornoxicam on the articular cartilage & synovium in rat.
Background & objectives: Intraarticular (i.a) drug application is consider to be a new therapeutic approach for the treatment of postoperative pain after arthroscopic knee surgery without any systemic adverse effects. Lornoxicam, a nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drug is a short acting agent, and its anti-inflammatory and analgesic activity may be effective...