At WashU Medicine Pain Center, specialists across disciplines collaborate to diagnose and treat how patients experience chronic pain.

This alarming statistic has fueled a public/private partnership in Philadelphia of more than 20 organizations and individuals to develop and implement policies to reduce the impact of the opioid ...

We've all heard someone claim they have a "high pain threshold" as if it's a mark of strength or resilience. But does science support the idea that some people genuinely feel less pain than others?

When Dr. Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen needs to explain pain, he often talks about David Beckham. Back in 2010, Beckham tore his Achilles in an AC Milan game and cameras caught a lesson in the weird ways that ...

Most people consider chronic pain—such as pain that lasts for months or years from a bad back or arthritis—a medical condition that should be treated exclusively by a physician or physical therapist.

VIRTUALLY every man has experienced pain and therefore knows just how it feels. But he cannot tell anybody else what it is really like. Pain cannot even be precisely defined. Lay and medical ...

When you break your leg, undergo surgery, or burn your hand, you experience pain—acute pain. With treatment and time, the pain usually disappears. But chronic pain is different. It hangs around even ...

Researchers from the University College London have brought us one step closer to understanding how we feel pain. Their study, published in Brain, describes a rare genetic mutation found in a patient ...

UAB has multiple current studies examining how pain affects underserved minority populations often marginalized by social conditions. Research shows that ethnic/racial minorities, LGBTQ+, refugees, ...

Racial and ethnic disparities in pain prevalence in the U.S. are far larger than previously realized, according to results of a new study co-authored by a UB medical sociologist. The current research ...

Pain, in its various forms, is a part of the human experience. It can be physical, such as the pain from an injury or illness, or emotional, such as loss, rejection, or failure. Regardless of its ...

Joshua Pate has received speaker fees for presentations on pain and physiotherapy. He receives royalties for children's books. Tory Madden receives funding from the National Institutes of Health for ...