[Chronic pain syndrome and sleep disorders in patients with occupational diseases of upper extremities].
Polling method revealed prevalence of chronic nightly pain syndrome and insomnia peculiarities in 126 patients having occupational hands diseases. Prevalence of chronic nightly pain syndrome in upper limbs among actively working patients with occupational hands diseases caused by functional overstrain was 68%; that among the vibration disease patients equalled 58%. The nightly pains were absent in the reference group. Prevalence of the nighly pains among the patients in post-contact period was 83.3%. Insomnia prevalence, according to polling data in the workers, equalled 76% in functional overstrain cases and 63% in vibration disease cases, in post-contact period 72%, in the reference group 60% without reliable difference. Pilot polysomnographic study before and after the treatment of insomnia in 6 patients with sleep disorders demonstrated improvement of qualitative characteristics of sleep after the treatment.
Ian'shina
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Liubchenko
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Ian'chin
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D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010146:Pain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D017286:Polysomnography; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D034941:Upper Extremity / Q000294:innervation / Q000503:physiopathology*