Many people with dementia experience pain, but often find it difficult to communicate this to their carers and the pain is therefore manifested as agitation instead. A randomised controlled trial published in the British Medical Journal looks at a systematic approach to the treatment of pain, to see if it can reduce agitation in people with [read the full story…]
Root canal procedures are commonly believed to be the most painful dental treatment yet only 17% have described it as their most painful dental experience. The aim of this review was to determine the influence of root canal treatment on pain prevalence and severity and estimate the prevalence and severity of pre-treatment, treatment, and post-treatment [read the full story…]
This article reports the findings of an audit carried out in Surrey to look at pain recognition and management with people with learning disabilities. The authors looked at what people with learning disabilities understood and experienced when they had pain, compared to what was reported as good practice in the literature. The authors found that [read the full story…]
