Improper pain management leads to severe physical or mental consequences, including suffering, a negative impact on quality of life, and an increased risk of opioid dependency. Assessing the presence and severity of pain is imperative to prevent such...
BACKGROUND: Evidence for the routine use of robotic technology and its impact on short-term outcomes in colon cancer surgery is lacking. The aim of this study was to compare the surgically induced systemic stress response and clinical and patient-rep...
Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS
38428929
Facial expressions have increasingly been used to assess emotional states in mammals. The recognition of pain in research animals is essential for their well-being and leads to more reliable research outcomes. Automating this process could contribute...
BACKGROUND: The continuous monitoring and recording of patients' pain status is a major problem in current research on postoperative pain management. In the large number of original or review articles focusing on different approaches for pain assessm...
Journal of orthopaedic science : official journal of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association
38570287
BACKGROUND: 'Mo-fi-disc' is a new scoring system that quantifies degeneration of the lumbar spine and predicts the intensity of low back pain (LBP). However, its association with LBP-related disability is unknown. In the present study, we aimed to an...
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to identify gait alterations related to worsening knee pain and worsening physical function, using machine learning approaches applied to wearable sensor-derived data from a large observational cohort.
Advances in neonatal care : official journal of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses
38775675
BACKGROUND: Early-life pain is associated with adverse neurodevelopmental consequences; and current pain assessment practices are discontinuous, inconsistent, and highly dependent on nurses' availability. Furthermore, facial expressions in commonly u...
International journal of medical informatics
38743995
INTRODUCTION: Pain conditions are common in elderly individuals, including those with dementia. However, symptoms associated with dementia may lead to poor recognition, assessment and management of pain. In this study, we incorporated the variables b...
OBJECTIVES: The traditional understanding of craniocervical alignment emphasizes specific anatomical landmarks. However, recent research has challenged the reliance on forward head posture as the primary diagnostic criterion for neck pain. An advance...
BACKGROUND: Pain is a complex subjective experience, strongly impacting health and quality of life. Despite many attempts to find effective solutions, present treatments are generic, often unsuccessful, and present significant side effects. Designing...