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Labor Pain

Labor Pain: Introduction

Labor Pain: Pain that occurs during active childbirth. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Labor Pain is available below.

Symptoms of Labor Pain

• Pain
• Abdominal cramps
• Back pain
• more symptoms...»

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Home Diagnostic Testing

Home medical testing related to Labor Pain:

• Home STD Testing
  • Home HIV Tests
  • Home Chlamydia Tests
  • Home Hepatitis Tests
  • Home Herpes Tests
• more...»

Wrongly Diagnosed with Labor Pain?

• Misdiagnosis of Labor Pain

Alternative Treatments for Labor Pain

Alternative treatments or home remedies that have been listed in various sources as possibly beneficial for Labor Pain may include:

• Chamomilla homeopathic remedy
• Sepia homeopathic remedy
• Belladonna homeopathic remedy
• Coffea cruda homeopathic remedy
• Aconite homeopathic remedy
• more treatments »

Causes of Labor Pain

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Labor Pain: Undiagnosed Conditions

Commonly undiagnosed diseases in related medical categories:

• Women's Reproductive Health: diseases that are commonly undiagnosed:
  • Overactive Bladder Syndrome -- Undiagnosed
  • PCOS -- Undiagnosed
  • Chlamydia -- Undiagnosed
  • Pelvic Inflammatory Disease -- Undiagnosed
  • Cervical Cancer -- Undiagnosed
  • Breast Cancer -- Undiagnosed
  • Ovarian Cancer -- Undiagnosed
  • Von Willebrand Disease -- Undiagnosed
  • more ...»
• more undiagnosed conditions...»

Misdiagnosis and Labor Pain

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Labor Pain: Research Doctors & Specialists

Research related physicians and medical specialists:

• Nerve Specialists:
  • Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine
  • Neurology (Brain/CNS Specialists)
  • Pediatric Neurology (Child Brain Specialist)
  • Spinal Cord Injury Medicine
• Infertility Specialists:
  • Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility
• Pregnancy & Fertility Health Specialists:
  • Maternal & Fetal Medicine
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
• Baby & Newborn Health Specialists:
• Womens Health Specialists:
  • Gynecological Oncology
• Pain Specialists:
  • Pain Medicine
  • Rheumatology (Arthritis / Joint Pain)
• Arthritis & Joint Health Specialists (Rheumatology):
  • Rheumatology (Joint Health)
  • Pediatric Rheumatology (Child Joint Health)
• more specialists...»

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Hospitals & Clinics: Labor Pain

Research quality ratings and patient safety measures for medical facilities in specialties related to Labor Pain:

• Urinary Health (Urology) -- Hospital Quality Ratings
• Womens Health -- Hospital Quality Ratings
• more hospital ratings...»

Hospital & Clinic quality ratings »

Choosing the Best Hospital: More general information, not necessarily in relation to Labor Pain, on hospital performance and surgical care quality:

• 50 Best Hospitals Report
• Outstanding Patient Experience Award Winning Hospitals
• Women's Health Best Hospitals
• Patient Safety
• Hospital Quality and Clinical Excellence Study (2009)

Labor Pain: Rare Types

Rare types of diseases and disorders in related medical categories:

• Women's Reproductive Health -- rare types of diseases:
  • Overactive Bladder Syndrome -- Rare Types
  • PCOS -- Rare Types
  • Chlamydia -- Rare Types
  • Pelvic Inflammatory Disease -- Rare Types
  • Cervical Cancer -- Rare Types
  • Breast Cancer -- Rare Types
  • Ovarian Cancer -- Rare Types
  • Von Willebrand Disease -- Rare Types
  • more ...»
• more rare diseases...»

Evidence Based Medicine Research for Labor Pain

Medical research articles related to Labor Pain include:

• The development and validation of a dynamic model to account for the progress of labor in the assessment of pain
• Dystocia in Nulliparous Women
• Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (Overview)
• Maternal Chorioamnionitis (Follow-up)
• Cesarean Delivery on Maternal Request
• Acute Abdomen and Pregnancy (Overview)
• Maternal Chorioamnionitis (Overview)
• Maternal Chorioamnionitis (Diagnosis)
• more research...»

Click here to find more evidence-based articles on the TRIP Database

Labor Pain: Animations

More Labor Pain animations & videos

Research about Labor Pain

Visit our research pages for current research about Labor Pain treatments.

Clinical Trials for Labor Pain

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Labor Pain include:

• Combined Spinal-Epidural Versus Traditional Labor Epidural - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Bupivacaine and Fentanyl
• Epidural Analgesia Versus IV Meperidine for Labor Pain Control - This study is not yet open for patient recruitment (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Intravenous meperidine injection,Epidural Bupivacaine and fentanyl injection
• Intravenous Remifentanil as Patient Controlled Analgesia (Pca) in Labour - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Remifentanil
• Role of B2 Adrenergic Receptors in Labor Pain - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Effect of Preemptive Epidural Analgesia in Labor on Cytokine Production - This study is no longer recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• more trials...»

See full list of 7 Clinical Trials for Labor Pain

Labor Pain: Broader Related Topics

• Pain conditions
• Pregnancy-related conditions
• Women-only conditions
• more types...»

Types of Labor Pain

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Definitions of Labor Pain:

A regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth - (Source - WordNet 2.1)

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