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82Insider's Guide to Epidural Anesthesia: For Labor and in Surgery
Epidurals are best known for providing pain relief during labor. But, epidural anesthesia can be used in other settings as well. Find out if this type of regional anesthesia is an option for your surgery. Learn the risks, benefits and potential complications from a board certified anesthesiologist.
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71Oxycontin: cuddling your pain
Oxycontin has had some pretty bad press over the past few years. But we all know about the media. They can beat up a scandal over just about anything. Even a medication as valuable and useful as Oxycontin has proven itself to be. ...
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64Whats the difference between Tylenol and Aspirin?
Tylenol is also known as Acetaminophen. Acetaminophen is believed to reduce pain by raising your body's total pain threshold. It is thought to relieve headaches and fever symptoms by helping your body...
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73Oxycontin: creating brand loyalty the Big Pharma way
From time to time we all need to use an analgesic. Maybe it’s aspirin or paracetamol for a headache. Or an opiate administered in a hospital for a few days only after surgery. Or a low dosage codeine preparation for a particularly painful wound...
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74hyposis and hypnotizing benefits
WHAT IS HYPNOSIS? With the word hypnosis, a picture comes to our mind alive that a man is hypnotizing with holding a moving locket or chain before the eyes of someone and that someone once hypnotized will obey his master's order remaining in a...
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63Types of Analgesia
Caudal analgesia Caudal analgesia includes the process of administration the analgesia medication through the sacrococcygeal membrane. In this case the epidural for caudal analgesia is administered with a 22 g catheter over needle or it may also...
52General anesthesia
Definition of general anesthesia: It is defined as induction of state of unconsciousness with loss of pain sensation and paralysis of skeletal muscles over the whole body. Cardinal features of general anesthesia: Loss of pain sensation (...
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66Dance: The Most Beneficial Form of Exercise
Dance is the most beneficial form of exercise and flushes various kinds of ‘happy hormones’ whenever you indulge in this playful form of exercise. You can shed off over 400 calories in an entire session of just half an hour.
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67New Weapons in the Battle Against Chronic Pain
“The world is full of suffering; it is also full of overcoming it”. --Helen Keller Every year, a growing number of people suffer with lingering chronic pain. As much as 30% of the population in western...
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