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  2. Pain management - Wikipedia

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    Pain management is an aspect of medicine and health care involving relief of pain ( pain relief, analgesia, pain control) in various dimensions, from acute and simple to chronic and challenging. Most physicians and other health professionals provide some pain control in the normal course of their practice, and for the more complex instances of ...

  3. Pain ladder - Wikipedia

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    Pain ladder. "Pain ladder", or analgesic ladder, was created by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a guideline for the use of drugs in the management of pain. Originally published in 1986 for the management of cancer pain, it is now widely used by medical professionals for the management of all types of pain .

  4. List of hospitals in Georgia (U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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    Houston, Peach. 25. 2013. Atrium [6] New facility opened in 2013; former Fort Valley facility was in operation 1953–2013. Augusta University Children's Hospital of Georgia. Augusta. Richmond.

  5. Polymyalgia rheumatica - Wikipedia

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    Polymyalgia rheumatica ( PMR) is a syndrome experienced as pain or stiffness, usually in the neck, shoulders, upper arms, and hips, but which may occur all over the body. The pain can be sudden or can occur gradually over a period. Most people with PMR wake up in the morning with pain in their muscles; however, cases have occurred in which the ...

  6. Piedmont Newnan Hospital - Wikipedia

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    Piedmont Newnan Hospital. /  33.35750°N 84.75528°W  / 33.35750; -84.75528. Piedmont Newnan Hospital ( PNH) is a 217-bed, acute-care hospital located at its new location of 745 Poplar Rd in Newnan, Georgia, offering 24-hour emergency services, women's services, and general medical/surgical services. Diagnostic services include CT ...

  7. Newnan, Georgia - Wikipedia

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    FIPS code. 13-55020 [2] GNIS feature ID. 0332499 [3] Website. newnanga .gov. Newnan is a city in and the county seat of Coweta County, Georgia, United States, about 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Atlanta. Its population was 42,549 at the 2020 census, [4] up from 33,039 in 2010 .

  8. Nociplastic pain - Wikipedia

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    Nociplastic pain aka central sensitisation is the consensus semantic term used by medical researchers to describe a third category of pain that is mechanistically distinct from nociceptive pain, due to inflammation and tissue damage, and neuropathic pain, due to nerve damage. [5] It may occur in combination with the other types of pain or in ...

  9. Medicine - Wikipedia

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    Medicine. Medicine is the science [1] and practice [2] of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.