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Australian research scientists have devised a new blood test to measure pain called “painHS”. They say the “painHS” will soon be an accurate tool for objectively telling doctors how much pain their patient is suffering from.

Kelly Thomas and Jeff Marquis learn to walk again thanks to a spinal cord implant. They participated in a study from the Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center at the University of Louisville.

Neuropathic pain is nasty. It is baffling and excruciating. It’s also defined as chronic pathological pain that continues after the physiological cause has been eliminated. It can cause even the lightest of feathery touches to produce intolerable pain.

Data from 6 studies show that virtual reality (VR) is beneficial in the treatment of pain in adults and children. The immersive nature of VR may explain why the technique is effective.

Spinal cord stimulation (also known as “SCS”) therapy has been used to combat chronic pain since 1967. The FDA approved spinal cord stimulation in 1989 for the relief of intractable pain in the torso, arms, and legs.

Resiniferatoxin is 10,000 times hotter than the hottest pepper, and has features that make it promising as a painkiller of last resort.

This story is really about why females (both laboratory animals and humans) must be properly represented in medical research designed to alleviate pain. But the National Institutes of Health (NIH) primer which generated this article deals specifically with

Here’s how to address America’s dual pain and opioid crisis.

We recently posted a story summarizing the current state of the “opioid crisis”. Since then, an impressive group of pain management experts has weighed in on behalf of pain management patients.

A federal task force is calling for a far more individualized approach to pain management in the wake of the opioid epidemic.

Many people slouch or strain their necks while working at the computer. A new study shows how jutting the head forward to read more closely compresses the neck and leads to neck and shoulder problems.

The current opioid crisis is a very real and very widespread national problem. 72,000 Americans died from overdoses in 2017. That’s a new record. And two thirds of those overdoses were from opioids, whether prescription or illicit.

A report published in the January edition of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology recounts how researchers from Yale and Georgia State expanded upon a 2014 study of how children express pain.

Opioid-related deaths continue to be an epidemic of crisis proportions. But federal and state agencies are focusing on the wrong target – legitimate prescribing of opioids – and have insinuated themselves into the doctor-patient relationship as never befor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died at 35. During that short lifespan he consistently endured intense pain. Mozart suffered from smallpox, tonsillitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, typhoid fever, rheumatism, and gum disease.

Our bodies have two primary structural bends, one at the hips and the other at the knees.