Two landmark studies last year in the New England Journal of Medicine found that a similar spine procedure (vertebroplasty) was no better than a fake operation--raising serious questions over whether the pain relief patients report from kyphoplasty is nothing more than an expensive placebo effect.
The position you're in is probably causing you pain, whether you're aware of it yet or not.
The music understood, and it would be there whether we stayed in pain or regained our sanity, which was also painful.
But the study's authors, Professor Edzard Ernst and Dr Max Pittler from the University of Exeter warned that more research needs to be done to establish whether acupuncture or conventional pain relief methods were more effective.
Not long after embarking upon the subject of God and melancholy, for example, Mr. Burton veers into "A Digression of the Nature of Spirits, Bad Angels, or Devils, " which leads into an elaborate taxonomy of evil creatures, including the question of whether some devils "have excrements" or "feel pain if they are hurt, " and whether there can be both good and bad devils.
The mother, after asking about whether the fetus would feel any pain, said she thought the second option was best.
Another question FitzGerald wants studied: whether or not some patients have their pain relieved by one medicine, but not another--and why.
But Germany and the European Central Bank disagree over whether and how private creditors should share the pain.
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At some point after the bone heals, Mr. Ware and his doctors may consider whether to remove the rod to prevent possible pain from the impact of playing.
Cruelty comes from failing to empathise with others, whether through being inconsiderate or through wilfully ignoring their pain.
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But growth of the cox-2 class has stalled amid a controversy over whether they deliver on their promise of providing safer pain relief.
"There has been a long debate about whether crustaceans including crabs, prawns and lobsters feel pain, " said Professor Elwood in a press statement.
But there is a backlash over whether the equipment is overused on patients with ordinary back pain who would do just as well with low-tech treatment.
He questions whether that's possible, so it may be time to look again at whether the National Health Service should take more of the pain - at Westminster, at Holyrood, or both.
One major issue, Butler says, is whether the drug would be approved to treat any form of chronic pain.
In the study, researchers used a questionnaire, called the Carolinas Comfort Scale, to assess quality of life with such questions as whether patients feel a "sensation of mesh" after surgery or pain or movement limitations during daily activities.
At issue, too, is whether enforcement of Mr Ashcroft's ruling will lead doctors to prescribe pain-killing drugs more cautiously.
We'd like to look at whether there are times when forgiving someone doesn't bring peace but pain - pain so great that even the closest ties need to be cut.
Horses are increasingly used in psychotherapy, which makes me wonder whether you getting back involved with a horse or horses might help ease your pain and your depression.
Knowing this may influence the decision about whether the EU and IMF should require Greek bond holders to share in the pain with some form of debt restructuring, re-profiling or default.
In one speech, he questioned whether it made sense to get your tonsils out if a pill to relieve the pain would suffice.
For outsiders though, it is hard not to wonder whether an icy swim simply replaces a Guinness-induced headache with a different kind of pain.
Let's face it: heart monitors, whether strapped to our chests or mounted to the front of a treadmill, are an awful pain to use.
But early studies reporting positive results for the vertebroplasty procedure did not have control groups, making it unclear whether the purported benefits were simply due to the placebo effect or the natural tendency of chronic pain to subside over time.
Relatively few of them--about 0.4%--on any treatment had heart attacks, and that makes it difficult to draw conclusions about whether patients on Prexige were at more risk than those on ibuprofen and naproxen, the older pain drugs in the study.
In a provocative new study, scientists reported Wednesday that they were able to "see" pain on brain scans and, for the first time, measure its intensity and tell whether a drug was relieving it.
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