scholarly journals Life History of Women with Fibromyalgia: Beyond the Illness

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Gonzalez ◽  
Telmo Baptista ◽  
Jaime Branco
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Psychological Intervention ◽  
Stressful Life Event ◽  
Pain Syndrome ◽  
Chronic Pain Syndrome ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Relevant Role ◽  
History Of

Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain syndrome, which mostly affects middle age women and whose etiological factors remain unclear. Psychosocial aspects may have a relevant role as predisposing, triggering, and/or perpetuating factors for this syndrome, raising the interest about life history of patients with fibromyalgia. In this study, we interviewed 10 women with a diagnosis of fibromyalgia, who had identified a critical or very stressful life event before the onset of the syndrome. The interview about the life history comprises the whole life, before and after the onset of the syndrome, and the narratives were analyzed with interpretative phenomenological analysis. Nine themes emerged: struggle, focus on adversities, positive overlaps the negative, scars of unhappy childhood, help others, perfectionism and desire to achieve, unsatisfactory present, perception of injustice, and keep feelings inside. A difficult life history is prevalent in these women and the themes identified are discussed in their relation with other qualitative studies and their possible role as predisposing and perpetuating factors for fibromyalgia. The ability to value the positive side of things, despite the adversities these women emphasized, is highlighted as an aspect to explore in psychological intervention, to enable a better management of this syndrome.

scholarly journals KINESIOTAPE METHODOLOGY FOR CHRONIC PAIN SYNDROME IN THE LUMBOSACRAL REGION

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 3950-3954
Author(s):  
Stamenka Mitova ◽  
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Mariya Gramatikova ◽  
Margarita Avramova ◽  
Georgi Stoyanov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Pain Syndrome ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
Chronic Pain Syndrome ◽  
Lumbosacral Region ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Experimental Group

Purpose: The study aims to evaluate the effect of kinesiotape methodology on chronic pain syndrome in the lumbosacral region. Material and Methods: 42 participants with chronic low back pain were recruited and randomly divided into two groups – control (n=19) and experimental (n=23). Foreword and lateral tilt, Borg and Modified Merld’Aubigne Scale for pain were used for assessment before and after treatment. Roland-Morris Questionnaire was done to assess the quality of life before and three months after treatment. The participants received a specialized kinesitherapy program combined with kinesio tape daily for 15 days with a duration of 40 minutes per procedure. They all received a home kinesitherapy program. Data were analyzed using GraphPad prism 3.02. Results: 42 participants, including 20 women and 22 men, were examined. The mean age (X±SD) of the control group was 45±9.08years, and for experimental was49.13±8.3 years. Median values of the Borg pain scale were as follows: 7.53±0.84 before, and 6.05±0.78 after treatment for the control group and 7.39±0.99 and 4.61±0.78 for the experimental group. Merld’AubigneScaleshows before and after treatment for control group 4.26±065 and 3.12±0.49 respectively, while in experimental was 4.26±0.68 and 2.09±0.44 after treatment. The average of forwarding tilts measured before and after treatment was13.79±3.77cm and 10±3.6cm for the control group and 13.13±3.76 and 7.52±2.25 for the experimental group. Initially, the quality of life questionnaire shows 17.26±1.66 and three months later was 12±1.45 for the control group and 17.35±1.5 before, and descend to 9.00±1.04 for the experimental group. There were statistically significant differences before and after treatment (p <0.05). Conclusions: Treatment significantly reduces pain and muscle spasms after application and improves thefunctionality of the lumbar spine. Kinesiotape not only helps the reduction of pain symptoms in musculoskeletal pathologies but is also a valuable addition to the kinesitherapy procedures.

American tourists in Cuba: Is the communist country a forbidden or a tainted fruit?

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jackson Wilson ◽  
Pavlína Látková
Keyword(s):  
Destination Image ◽  
Communist Country ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
The Us ◽  
Before And After ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Near Future

Americans are the majority of tourists in the Caribbean, but the US embargo against Cuba prevents almost all American tourists from visiting Cuba. This study uses mixed methods to examine a group of American tourists' destination image of Cuba before and after a tour in Cuba. The American tourists in this study described Cuba as a forbidden fruit, a desirable destination that Americans are not allowed to or at least should not visit. On the positive side, travelling to Cuba was seen as a scarce opportunity that has the allure of the prohibited and the attraction of viewing communism from a previous era. Conversely, the image of Cuba was also tainted by the history of political antagonism with America and associated concerns about tourist safety, cost, and a limited market place. However, actual and potential changes in Cuba are likely to heavily impact the destination image in the near future.

scholarly journals A patient with chronic pain syndrome

2021 ◽  
pp. 368-371
Author(s):  
V. I. Moroz ◽  
M.. B. Balaeva ◽  
A. V Naumov ◽  
N. O. Khovasova
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Clinical Case ◽  
Pain Syndrome ◽  
Geriatric Syndromes ◽  
Chronic Pain Syndrome ◽  
Mild Degree ◽  
Constant Pain ◽  
Complex Therapy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Methods Of Treatment

This article describes a clinical case of a patient with chronic pain syndrome on the background of osteoarthritis, with a history of joint replacement. The reason for hospitalization was a fall, after which a constant pain syndrome persisted and a neuropathic component joined, which the patient could not stop with anything.As a result of a comprehensive geriatric assessment, the patient was diagnosed with frailty and the following geriatric syndromes: mild dependence on outside help, chronic pain syndrome, balance disorders, falls, stress urinary incontinence. Non-drug methods of treatment and complex therapy (gabapentin + B vitamins + uridine) and antiosteoporetic therapy were recommended, against which the intensity of the pain syndrome decreased to a mild degree (according to the VAS scale of 2 points at the time of discharge) and a decrease in neuropathy copatterns was noted.

Maladaptive Perfectionism

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Parvin Kiamanesh ◽  
Gudrun Dieserud ◽  
Kari Dyregrov ◽  
Hanne Haavind
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Psychological Autopsy ◽  
Autopsy Study ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
Male Suicide ◽  
Maladaptive Perfectionism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Suicide Prevention Programs

This study aimed to explore how the life history of suicide victims with no history of treatment in mental health care or of attempted suicide seemed to presdispose them to maladaptive perfectionism. The study is part of an ongoing psychological autopsy study. It aimed to produce a phenomenological understanding of the vulnerability to suicide related to perfectionism, based on the life history of six male suicide victims aged 22 to 58. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to analyze the interview data of 41 key informants. Three main themes emerged: (a) exposure to high expectations combined with little recognition and warmth; (b) reduced ability to cope with failures and weaknesses; and (c) fear of emotional rejection. Together these themes illustrate that feelings of shame, mainly resulting from an unfulfilled need for attachment, a desire for love and recognition may relate to maladaptive perfectionism, which influences the suicidal process. The results may have important implications for suicide prevention programs.

Comparative Analysis: The State of Colorado Study, Part II

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Christopher R. Brigham ◽  
Kathryn Mueller ◽  
Douglas Van Zet ◽  
Debra J. Northrup ◽  
Edward B. Whitney ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Daily Living ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Pain Syndrome ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Clinical Assessments ◽  
Physician Judgment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Terms ◽  
Causation Analysis ◽  
Work Interference

Abstract [Continued from the January/February 2004 issue of The Guides Newsletter.] To understand discrepancies in reviewers’ ratings of impairments based on different editions of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides), users can usefully study the history of the revisions as successive editions attempted to provide a comprehensive, valid, reliable, unbiased, and evidence-based system. Some shortcomings of earlier editions have been addressed in the AMA Guides, Fifth Edition, but problems remain with each edition, largely because of the limited scientific evidence available. In the context of the history of the different editions of the AMA Guides and their development, the authors discuss and contextualize a number of key terms and principles including the following: definitions of impairment and normal; activities of daily living; maximum medical improvement; impairment percentages; conversion of regional impairments; combining impairments; pain and other subjective complaints; physician judgment; and causation analysis; finally, the authors note that impairment is not synonymous with disability or work interference. The AMA Guides, Fifth Edition, contrasts impairment evaluations and independent medical evaluations (this was not done in previous editions) and discusses impairment evaluations, rules for evaluations, and report standards. Upper extremity and lower extremity impairment evaluations are discussed in terms of clinical assessments and rating processes, analyzing important changes between editions and problematic areas (eg, complex regional pain syndrome).

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