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- Acetaminophen [r]: An analgesic antipyretic drug widely used for the treatment of headaches, fever and other minor aches and pains. [e]
- Acupuncture [r]: A form of alternative medicine that involves inserting and manipulating needles into 'acupuncture points' on the body with the aim of restoring health and well-being. [e]
- Angina [r]: The symptom of paroxysmal pain consequent to myocardial ischemia usually of distinctive character, location and radiation. National Library of Medicine [e]
- Antidepressant [r]: Mood-stimulating drugs used primarily in the treatment of affective disorders and related conditions. [e]
- Arthritis [r]: A group of medical conditions where there is damage caused to the joints of the body. [e]
- Aspirin [r]: Common analgesic used for treating mild to moderate pain; protective against blood clots and heart disease when administered indefinitely in low doses [e]
- Bradykinin receptor [r]: Cell surface receptors that bind bradykinin and related kinins with high affinity and trigger intracellular changes which influence the behavior of cells (National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Bradykinin [r]: Nonapeptide messenger that is enzymatically produced from kallidin in the blood where it is a potent but short-lived agent of arteriolar dilation and increased capillary permeability (National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Chiropractic [r]: A complementary, alternative health-care profession that aims to heal using manual therapies on the spine and extremities. [e]
- Clonidine [r]: An "alpha-2 adrenergic agonist that crosses the blood-brain barrier. [e]
- Compression fracture [r]: Spinal fracture of a vertebral body, that results from the axial compression of the vertebra, and a loss of height of the bone. [e]
- Dance therapy [r]: The use of dance and other movement techniques to improve health, dealing with emotional or neurologic problems [e]
- Deep venous thrombosis [r]: The formation of a blood clot ("thrombus") in a deep vein. [e]
- Depression [r]: Psychiatric disorder characterized by generalized melancholy, retreat from social contact, disrupted sleep patterns, akathisia, or a feeling of restlessness and increased movement, and anhedonia, or a diminished ability to experience pleasure. [e]
- Diclofenac [r]: A non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agent (NSAID) with antipyretic and analgesic actions. [e]
- Dizziness [r]: A sense of spatial disorientation, motion of the environment, or lightheadedness. [e]
- Dysmenorrhoea [r]: Discomfort and pain associated with menstruation. [e]
- Fibromyalgia [r]: Inflammation of the fibrous or connective tissue of the body, characterized by acute and debilitating widespread musculoskeletal pain. [e]
- Gabapentin [r]: a medication used for epilepsy and postherpetic neuralgia [e]
- Geriatrics [r]: "the branch of medicine concerned with the physiological and pathological aspects of the aged, including the clinical problems of senescence and senility."(National Library of Medicine) [e]
- Guided imagery [r]: A process in which a facilitator or therapist, usually through spoken words and sometimes music or natural sounds, assists a person in imagining scenes or objects. The goal may be to induce a state of relaxation, or to reduce the distress of physical pain by transforming it to images that are then diminished. [e]
- Hunger [r]: Localized subjective sensation, caused by emptiness and a resulting hypermotility of the stomach. [e]
- Imagery (disambiguation) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Imagery (psychotherapy) [r]: The use of mental images produced by the imagination as a form of therapy for emotional disorders, or to help cope with the emotional impact of disease or discomfort. [e]
- Irritable bowel syndrome [r]: A disorder with chronic or recurrent colonic symptoms without a clearcut etiology (National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Kallikrein-kinin system [r]: System of metabolic interactions by products produced in the distal nephron of the kidney (National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Kinins [r]: These peptides are autacoids that act locally to produce pain, vasodilatation, increased vascular permeability, and the synthesis of prostaglandins (National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Lumbalgia [r]: Common musculoskeletal disorder caused by a variety of diseases and trauma that affect the lumbar spine. [e]
- Massage [r]: Systematic, applied manipulation of body tissues with the hands to relieve pain and reduce swelling, relax muscles, and speed healing after strains and sprains. [e]
- Medical diagnosis [r]: The process of combining observations, tests, and disciplined decision mechanisms to determine the cause(s) of a patient's distress [e]
- Migraine headache [r]: Vascular type of headache, marked by severe cranial vault pain lasting several hours, resulting from intracranial, extracranial, or psychogenic causes. [e]
- Mind-body therapies [r]: Techniques to improve mental or physical health that involve creating images, suggestion, states of relaxation to reduce the impact of pain or to accelerate healing [e]
- Multiple sclerosis [r]: A chronic, inflammatory, demyelinating disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS). [e]
- Musculoskeletal manipulations [r]: Physical movement of body tissues, muscles and bones, by hands or equipment, to improve health and circulation, relieve fatigue, or promote healing. [e]
- Neuralgia [r]: Acute paroxysmal pain with no continuous nociceptive input, along a peripheral sensory nerve. [e]
- Neuropathic pain [r]: Chronic pain state that is usually accompanied by tissue injury, with damaged, dysfunctional or injured nerve fibers. [e]
- Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agent [r]: Medication other than corticosteroids having analgesic, antipyretic and anti-inflammatory activity due to their ability to inhibit the synthesis of prostaglandins. [e]
- Opioid analgesic [r]: Synthetic narcotic that has opiate-like activities, which induces analgesia by mimicking endogenous opioids, at opioid receptors in the brain. [e]
- Oxytocin [r]: A mammalian hormone that is secreted into the bloodstream from the posterior pituitary gland, and which is also released into the brain where it has effects on social behaviors. [e]
- Pain in babies [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pain measurement [r]: Scale of a patient's pain intensity or other features, based on self-report, observational, or physiological data. [e]
- Palliative care [r]: Medical care or treatment that concentrates on alleviating the severity of disease symptoms, rather than striving to provide a cure. [e]
- Placebo [r]: A treatment or drug, administered by, or at the orders of, a health professional, that the professional knows will have no physiologic effect [e]
- Psychological stress [r]: Biological reactions to any adverse stimulus, mental or emotional, that tends to disturb the organisms homeostasis, and may lead to disorders. [e]
- Psychotherapy [r]: An intervention technique that relies on interpersonal communication between a therapist and a client to address specific forms of diagnosable mental illness, or everyday problems. [e]
- Rheumatoid arthritis [r]: A chronic, inflammatory autoimmune disorder that causes the immune system to attack the joints. [e]
- Sadism [r]: A condition in which there is a derivation of pleasure from inflicting pain, discomfort or humiliation on another person or persons. The sexual significance of sadistic wishes or behavior may be conscious or unconscious. (National Library of Medicine) [e]
- Sciatica [r]: Pain along the sciatic nerve usually caused by a herniated disk of the lumbar region of the spine and radiating to the buttocks and to the back of the thigh. [e]
- Second-generation antidepressant [r]: Antidepressants characterized primarily by the era of their introduction, rather than by their chemical structure or by their pharmacological effect. [e]
- Sham treatment [r]: Use of some parts of a treatment that do have physical effects on a subject, which are intended to act as placebo where it is impossible to have a completely neutral equivalent to the treatment. While a pill with no active ingredients can be a placebo, for surgery, sham surgery would require at least anesthesia and an incision. [e]
- Somatoform disorder [r]: Psychological disorder characterized by physical symptoms that mimic disease or injury for which there is no identifiable physical cause. [e]
- Sympathetic magic [r]: The cultural concept that a symbol, or small aspect, of a more powerful entity can, as desired by the user, invoke or compel that entity [e]
- Torture [r]: The infliction of mental or physical pain, for punishment or as an interrogation technique. [e]
- Tricyclic antidepressant [r]: Adrenergic uptake inhibitors used in the treatment of depression. [e]
- Unpopularity [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vertebral subluxation [r]: Chiropractic concepts of health and wellness revolve around this model theory that makes the hypothesis that spinal function affects spinal nerves in such a fashion as to affect various aspects of health. [e]
