Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lower back pain, as prevalent as the common cold, is the price human beings pay for walking upright. In most cases, simple treatments like bed rest, exercise and pain-killers bring relief. But many sufferers are not so lucky. If one or more of their spinal disks -- pulpy masses that cushion pairs of vertebrae -- rupture and press on nerve roots, the pain that radiates from the back and down the legs can be excruciating and disabling. For many the only treatment is surgical removal of part of the blown disk, a major operation called a laminectomy that requires general anesthesia...
Scientists call it trifoliate orange. Barrier Concepts Inc. uses the brand name Living Fence. Most appropriate, perhaps, is its more common nickname "P.T.," which stands for "pain and terror...
...represent a dramatic improvement over their predecessors. Take the plastic wafer, about the size of a quarter, that can carry powerful drugs to brain-cancer victims. Researchers have known for some time that disks formed of chemical structures called polymers work well for dispensing small molecules like nitroglycerin, a pain reliever commonly used for heart patients. But the polymers seemed stubbornly resistant to releasing larger molecules of substances like insulin and growth hormones in the slow, steady doses needed for diabetics and underdeveloped children...
...operating room and came out of the recovery room smiling. Several relatives did not have the stomach to look at his right shin, cut into three pieces, with steel pins going through the bone at three points to keep them in line. At first he refused to take pain-killers hours after the anesthesia had worn off. "They say that stuff makes you a junkie." Nine days later, he underwent an operation on the left thigh bone. The postoperative pain was much worse this time. But he kept fighting. "Just spare me the stupid jokes. This is serious business...
...wheelchair his parents have bought him. He has had surgery three more times since April to separate bone pieces that closed the gap and joined prematurely. So far, his right shin is stretched by 5 in. and his left thigh by 3 in. His skin and muscles are drawn painfully taut. He survives on codeine, Demerol, other pain-killers and huge doses of mind control and courage. He has to undergo at least three more sets of operations -- on the upper arms, the right thigh and the left shin. He broke down one day and ordered everybody...