Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses
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Review Meta Analysis
Clinical Effectiveness of Craniosacral Therapy in Patients with Headache Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
To analyze the effectiveness of craniosacral therapy in improving pain and disability among patients with headache disorders. ⋯ Very low certainty of evidence suggests that craniosacral therapy produces clinically unimportant effects on pain intensity, whereas no significant effects were observed in disability or headache effect.
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Review Meta Analysis
Effectiveness of Cold Therapy for Pain and Anxiety Associated with Chest Tube Removal: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
To assess the effectiveness of cold therapy for pain and anxiety associated with chest tube removal. ⋯ Cold therapy can reduce pain and anxiety associated with chest tube removal.
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The extent to which different measures of back pain impact represent an underlying common factor has implications for decisions about which one to use in studies of pain management and estimating one score from others. ⋯ Scores of each measure can be estimated from the others for use in research.
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Although past studies have found significant positive correlations of both pain severity and overall pain catastrophizing (PC) levels with depression in chronic pain samples, less is known about the extent to which specific PC dimensions (i.e., helplessness, magnification, rumination) explain links between pain severity and depression. ⋯ The helplessness dimension of PC, in particular, may help to explain why people with more severe chronic pain are prone to co-occurring depression.