Pain Management

Robotic Rehabilitation and Spinal Cord Injury: a Narrative Review.

Mobility after spinal cord injury (SCI) is among the top goals of recovery and improvement in quality of life. Those with tetraplegia rank hand function as the most important area of recovery in their lives, and those with paraplegia, walking. Without hand function, emphasis in rehabilitation is placed on accessing one's environment through technology. However, there is still much reliance on care...

Automated Pain Assessment using Electrodermal Activity Data and Machine Learning.

Objective pain assessment is required for appropriate pain management in the clinical setting. However, clinical gold standard pain assessment is based on subjective methods. Automated pain detection from physiological data may provide important objective information to better standardize pain assessment. Specifically, electrodermal activity (EDA) can identify features of stress and anxiety induce...

Continuous Pain Intensity Estimation from Autonomic Signals with Recurrent Neural Networks.

Pain is usually measured by patient's self-report, which requires patient collaboration. Hence, the development of an objective automatic pain detecti...

Automated Pain Detection in Facial Videos of Children using Human-Assisted Transfer Learning.

Accurately determining pain levels in children is difficult, even for trained professionals and parents. Facial activity provides sensitive and specif...

Research: Use of Dry Electroencephalogram and Support Vector for Objective Pain Assessment.

The reliability of normal gel-based electrode electroencephalogram (EEG) for measuring pain has been validated. To date, however, few documented trial...

Robot-Assisted Body-Weight-Supported Treadmill Training in Gait Impairment in Multiple Sclerosis Patients: A Pilot Study.

This study deals with the use of a robot-assisted body-weight-supported treadmill training in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients with gait dysfunction. ...

Design and Implementation of a Robotic Software for the Assessment of Pain in Children.

Pain in child population is presented as a vital process which produces a variation in capacities and needs of care. That pain has an impact on the ch...

Effect and Safety of Labor Epidural Analgesia with Intermittent Boluses of 0.1% Bupivacaine with Fentanyl on Fetal and Maternal Outcomes and Wellbeing.

BACKGROUND: Labor analgesia has been shown to have few undesirable effects on the course and outcome of the labor as well as on the fetal well-being.

Comparison of Two Different Volumes of Ropivacaine Used in Nerve Stimulator Guided Inter-scalene Block for Arthroscopic Shoulder Surgery - A Randomized Controlled Trial.

BACKGROUND: This study was conducted to compare the analgesic efficacy of 10 ml versus 20 mL of 0.5% ropivacaine in nerve stimulator guided interscale...

Addition of Dexmedetomidine to Ropivacaine in Subcostal Transversus Abdominis Plane Block Potentiates Postoperative Analgesia among Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Patients: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial.

CONTEXT: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is associated with moderate intensity postoperative pain especially in the early postoperative period. Transvers...

Labor Epidural Analgesia: Comparison of Two Different Intermittent Bolus Regimes.

BACKGROUND: Optimal labor analgesia can be provided with epidural by addition of opioid to the local anesthetic.

Comparative Evaluation of Ropivacaine and Ropivacaine with Dexamethasone in Transverse Abdominis Plane Block for Lower Abdominal Surgeries: A Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blinded Study.

CONTEXT: Dexamethasone as an adjunct to ropivacaine has shown promising results in prolonging the duration of analgesia in transverse abdominis plane ...

Comparative Analysis of Duration of Postoperative Analgesia between Levobupivacaine and Levobupivacaine with Clonidine after Ultrasound-Guided Transversus Abdominis Plane Block in Patients Undergoing Lower Segment Cesarean Section.

BACKGROUND: Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block in cesarean section is carried out by local anesthetics such as bupivacaine or ropivacaine with a ...

[A sketch of the overlap in the neural circuitry underlying psychological- and physical-pain].

From the phenomenological point of view, pain can be classified into psychological-pain and physical-pain. Emerging evidence has shown that the psycho...

Clinical and Electrophysiological Analysis of Chronic Eyelid Twitching.

PURPOSE: Nearly everyone had experience of eyelid twitching (ET) and most physicians think it is benign and self limited. Most neurologists consider i...

A Machine Learning-based Surface Electromyography Topography Evaluation for Prognostic Prediction of Functional Restoration Rehabilitation in Chronic Low Back Pain.

STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective study.

Effects of nefopam on emergence agitation after general anesthesia for nasal surgery: A prospective, randomized, and controlled trial.

BACKGROUND: Emergence agitation (EA) occurs frequently after nasal surgery. N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists and analgesics, such as f...

[A Two-Stage Right Hemicolectomy Case in Which the First Surgery Was Laparoscopic Ileocecal Resection Based on Preoperative Diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis].

We report a case oftwo -stage right hemicolectomy in which the first surgery performed was laparoscopic ileocecal resection based on the preoperative ...

Enhancing Risk Assessment in Patients Receiving Chronic Opioid Analgesic Therapy Using Natural Language Processing.

OBJECTIVES: Clinical guidelines for the use of opioids in chronic noncancer pain recommend assessing risk for aberrant drug-related behaviors prior to...

Prediction of persistent post-surgery pain by preoperative cold pain sensitivity: biomarker development with machine-learning-derived analysis.

BACKGROUND: To prevent persistent post-surgery pain, early identification of patients at high risk is a clinical need. Supervised machine-learning tec...