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Background

Every professional segment has its own typical forms of stress, which for members result in patterns of bodily conception and interpretation of pain. The way individuals cope with these typical forms of pain reflects their social identity, social status and group membership. In this study pain was investigated from a sociological perspective as a medium contributing to socialization processes in stress collectives.

Objectives

Cultural conceptions of headache and migraine were investigated in members of blue collar occupations, in service professions and patients in specialized medical pain care.

Materials and methods

In this study 49 qualitative biographical interviews were conducted with patients suffering from headache and migraine. The study population included persons from the general outpatient population and patients recruited from specialized inpatient pain clinics.

Results

Members of blue collar occupations with specific body-oriented, mechanical stress patterns and dominant masculine attitudes, perceived headache and migraine as atypical deviations, which are contextualized as body pain. Professionals in the service sector with specific communicative-emotional work patterns perceived headache and migraine as typical and accepted deviations. Both pain conceptions represent dominant body norms and social commitments in each group; however, in specialized pain care these everyday concepts are transformed by increasing expert knowledge resulting in medicalized life styles and in identity conceptions conforming to the medical imperative.

Conclusion

The success of specialized treatment of headache depends to a certain extent on the ability of patients to impose a medically regulated life style on their significant others; however, this can conflict with the demands of everyday life.
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Background

Studies show that especially ill people turn to their religious faith to find help in dealing with their diseases. However, religiousness is assumed to vary in its extent and effect depending on different kinds of strain.

Material and methods

In order to differentiate patterns of strain and coping, a sample of 178 patients with chronic pain was compared with 167 breast cancer patients.

Results

Pain patients show higher strain and impairment on almost all variables. Regression analyses indicate that patients with chronic pain are less religious in comparison to the breast cancer patients.

Conclusions

Different values of the religious variables can be explained by different characteristics of the strain: Due to the threat to life experienced by the patients, the breast cancer group is more likely to turn to religiousness for help. Specific characteristics of chronic pain (e.g. longer illness duration, a stronger impairment in everyday activities) lead to higher resignation, also concerning religious efforts.  相似文献   

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Background and objective

Infantile cerebral palsy (ICP) is the most common cause of spastic syndromes in children and adolescents. It is caused by damage to the developing central nervous system. The structural damage is irreversible, but secondary functional disturbance of the loco motor system can be influenced by treatment. Since the functional problem is very often complex, different function-orientated multimodal treatment concepts (FMTC) have been developed for this patient group. In this review, the scientific evidence for these complex treatment programs is presented and discussed.

Methods

A literature search was conducted in the US National Library of Medicine, and a manual search in the Manuelle Medizin journal.

Results

A total of 57 relevant studies were found, of which 6 addressed FMTC. The other studies examined individual treatments frequently used in FMTC. Positive scientific evidence was found for all treatments. FMTC positively influenced patients’ motoric development.

Conclusion

FMTC and the functional treatments used in these programs positively influence development of the locomotor system in children and adolescents with ICP. Further studies are needed to assess the long-term sustainability of these effects.
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