Background: Kinesio taping (KT) and exercise are described for improving pain and function
of knee osteoarthritis (KOA) patients in most studies. However, the question remains if KT …

Chronic pain is a common problem, with more than one-fifth of adult Americans reporting
pain daily or on most days. It adversely affects the quality of life and imposes substantial …

Background Chronic pain is a common, poorly understood condition. Genetic studies
including genome-wide association studies have identified many relevant variants, which …

Different trajectories of low back pain (LBP) have been identified prospectively using
repeated measures. For these trajectories to inform clinical practice, they must be available …

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the leading causes of disease burden worldwide
and affected patients frequently report impairments in quality of life (QoL). Therefore, the …

Reliability is a topic in health science in which a critical appraisal of the magnitudes of the
measurements is often left aside to favour a formulaic analysis. Furthermore, the relationship …

Objectives This study aimed to explore the association between arm elevation and
neck/shoulder pain, and trunk forwarding bending and low back pain among home care …

The numerical rating scale and visual analogue scale are used to quantify pain intensity.
However, it has not yet been explored whether these scores are interchangeable in adults …

Background Second-degree perineal tears are common and can vary widely in the extent of
tissue trauma. Therefore, a better understanding of perineal pain based on tissue trauma …

The treatment of early triple-negative breast cancer (eTNBC) has improved patients'
prognosis but often leads to adverse events and sequelae affecting quality of life (QoL). Pain …