Pain is easy to understand until it isn’t. A stubbed toe or sprained ankle hurts, but it makes sense because the cause is ...

A study of adults with chronic inflammatory arthritis found that these individuals have heightened sensitivity to punishment (i.e., losses) compared to healthy controls. They also showed greater ...

Chronic pain patients often report low energy, stiffness, appetite changes, and sleep disturbances, as well as mental health ...

By integrating clinical and imaging data, providers can better classify and manage migraine, according to an abstract presented at the American Headache Society 67th Annual Scientific ...

Why do some people suffer more than others, even when the pain is the same? Scientists have uncovered a hidden brain circuit that connects the physical experience of pain to its emotional aftermath.

Chronic pain, defined as pain lasting longer than three months, affects around 30% of people globally. The economic costs are estimated to be higher than that of heart disease, cancer and diabetes ...

More than 20 percent of the U.S. population lives with chronic pain—defined as pain that lasts longer than three months—with an estimated annual cost of more than $600 billion. 1 2 The most ...

After only one to three days of a whiplash injury, scientists can predict which patients will develop chronic pain based on the extent of cross 'talk' between two regions of the brain, and the ...

Brain scans can provide early warning of who will develop chronic pain following a whiplash injury, a new study finds.. Higher levels of "cross talk" between two specific brain regions within one ...

In a “major step forward in pain care”, a new approach to treat people living with chronic pain has been shown to reduce pain intensity in a randomised controlled trial of 89 people. The team behind ...

Chronic pain—pain which lasts 3-6 months or more—affects 1 in 5 adults globally. Medication, steroid injections, and other common medical treatments for chronic pain have limited efficacy, as ...

Chronic pain leads to fatigue, a weakened immune system and decreased mobility worse yet, powerful narcotics are often prescribed for patients, leading to more problems. But now, there is hope ...