Se hace una revisión del dolor en el adulto mayor como grupo poblacional en aumento, destacando aspectos generales y comparativos con otros grupos de edad. Se revisan tópicos básicos como clasificaciones, cuantificaciones, ...

Talking about 'suffering' in relation to 'old age' implies reflecting on its semantic fields, its various references and the relationship between the two in a dynamic way. We therefore propose to reflect first of all, in ...

Population aging is a phenomenon that happens all over the world. In Brazil, the group that grows the most corresponds to the age group of 80 years and more, called the oldest old. With the increasing proportion of elderly ...

Abstract Background Low back pain is a significant health problem condition due to high prevalence among the general population. Emotions and physical factors are believed ...

Chronic pain in various areas limits people's lives since it results on a reduction in thelevel of quality of life, disability and suffering. To evaluate and measure the perception of pain considering the complexity of ...

The caregiver who has the responsibility to take care of their elderly family member can modify their routine, increasing their workload and being susceptible to the appearance of pain. Chronic pain can interfere with ...

People living with HIV/aids have several persistent symptoms that develop during the course of illness, with pain being one of those symptoms that may be related to changes in health and mood-related quality of life. The ...

Purpose: To (i) investigate the proportion of overweight/obesity in a cohort of young adults with patellofemoral pain (PFP) and (ii) explore the association of body mass index (BMI), body fat, and lean mass with functional ...

Pain Neuroscience Education (PNE) aims to reconceptualize maladaptive behaviors and modify erroneous pain beliefs. Objective: Analyze the effects of pain neuroscience education on pain catastrophization in elderly people ...