Pain Relief

Since the beginning of times, pain treatment has been the motive of research giving birth to multiple groups of pharmacological families and therapies. Pain perception is a construction built over the biological phenomenon of signal transduction surrounded by different factors such as gender, age, a...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: IntechOpen 2023
Subjects:
Online Access:ONIX_20231201_9789535131885_889
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1869525892560060416
collection Directory of Open Access Books
description Since the beginning of times, pain treatment has been the motive of research giving birth to multiple groups of pharmacological families and therapies. Pain perception is a construction built over the biological phenomenon of signal transduction surrounded by different factors such as gender, age, and sociocultural status, among others. The concept of pain as the solely biological manifestation of defense is nowadays considered as a narrow-minded view of this topic. In this regard concepts such as newborns feel no pain or older people complain about everything therefore should not be paid attention when referring pain, are being left behind in the understanding that pain alleviation is a human right and everybody feeling pain should be helped for its relief. This book comprises many aspects of pain treatment and the drugs involved in it. From old analgesics with new mechanisms of action for pain alleviation to analgesics potential for diminishing oxidative stress; from pharmacological therapies to electrical ones, going through alternative medicine; and from pain treatment in dentistry to chronic pain therapies, also boarding the treatment of migraine, different experts share their knowledge on the topic.
format Online
id doab-20.500.12854ir-129780
institution Directory of Open Access Books
language eng
publishDate 2023
publishDateRange 2023
publishDateSort 2023
publisher IntechOpen
publisherStr IntechOpen
record_format ojs
spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1297802024-04-01T14:15:01Z Pain Relief Maldonado, Cecilia opioids, paracetamol, nsaids, antioxidants, medicinal plants, ultrasound thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKG Pharmacology Since the beginning of times, pain treatment has been the motive of research giving birth to multiple groups of pharmacological families and therapies. Pain perception is a construction built over the biological phenomenon of signal transduction surrounded by different factors such as gender, age, and sociocultural status, among others. The concept of pain as the solely biological manifestation of defense is nowadays considered as a narrow-minded view of this topic. In this regard concepts such as newborns feel no pain or older people complain about everything therefore should not be paid attention when referring pain, are being left behind in the understanding that pain alleviation is a human right and everybody feeling pain should be helped for its relief. This book comprises many aspects of pain treatment and the drugs involved in it. From old analgesics with new mechanisms of action for pain alleviation to analgesics potential for diminishing oxidative stress; from pharmacological therapies to electrical ones, going through alternative medicine; and from pain treatment in dentistry to chronic pain therapies, also boarding the treatment of migraine, different experts share their knowledge on the topic. 2023-12-01T16:09:21Z 2023-12-01T16:09:21Z 2017 book ONIX_20231201_9789535131885_889 9789535131885 9789535131878 9789535148319 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/129780 eng image/jpeg n/a https://www.intechopen.com/books/5525 https://mts.intechopen.com/storage/books/5525/authors_book/authors_book.pdf IntechOpen IntechOpen 10.5772/63264 10.5772/63264 78a36484-2c0c-47cb-ad67-2b9f5cd4a8f6 9789535131885 9789535131878 9789535148319 IntechOpen 362 open access
spellingShingle opioids, paracetamol, nsaids, antioxidants, medicinal plants, ultrasound
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKG Pharmacology
Pain Relief
title Pain Relief
title_full Pain Relief
title_fullStr Pain Relief
title_full_unstemmed Pain Relief
title_short Pain Relief
title_sort pain relief
topic opioids, paracetamol, nsaids, antioxidants, medicinal plants, ultrasound
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKG Pharmacology
topic_facet opioids, paracetamol, nsaids, antioxidants, medicinal plants, ultrasound
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKG Pharmacology
url ONIX_20231201_9789535131885_889