How to fix Canada’s opioid crisis: It starts with pain and the prescription pad
One in five Canadians suffers chronic pain and almost 2,500 died last year from opioid overdose. A National Pain Strategy promises to tackle both problems.
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How genetics can uncover links in chronic pain and other conditions
Chronic pain often comes with other illnesses. Researchers have now shown that genetics can play a part in how likely you are to suffer.
Can the way we move after injury lead to chronic pain?
Our brains tell our bodies to move differently when we have pain. And there is emerging evidence to show changing how we move could actually contribute to the development of chronic pain.
Life interrupted: young people need help moving forward after cancer
If you’re an Australian teenager or young adult diagnosed with cancer, there’s good news: overall survival rates are good and getting better. But what can you expect from life after cancer treatment?
What do we know about marijuana’s medical benefits? Two experts explain the evidence
With restrictions to cannabis loosening at the state level, research is badly needed to get the facts in order.
Stigma and empty wallets make HIV positive people carry on despite pain
Many people with moderate to severe chronic pain find it difficult to move around. By contrast, HIV-positive people who had chronic pain are still active.
How poor NHS testing and antibiotic use is creating super-strength cystitis
Poor testing methods and antibiotic use by GPs and urologists has left thousands of women with crippling infections.
What is chronic pain and why is it hard to treat?
Unrelieved pain contributes more to human suffering than any other disease.
Does your vulva hurt? You could have vulvodynia
If you've ever experienced pain in your vulva, you're not alone. Around 16% of women will have vulvar pain that lasts for longer than three months. They are likely suffering from vulvodynia.
Weekly dose: Lyrica, the epilepsy drug that treats chronic nerve pain
Lyrica, the brand name for a medicine called pregabalin, is an anti-epileptic drug most commonly used to treat chronic nerve pain - a type of pain caused by abnormality in, or damage to, the nerves.
From virtual reality to noise control: how to manipulate the senses to relieve pain
Could the future of pain relief be all about virtual reality games and clinics designed to promote certain sounds and colours?
Roots of opioid epidemic can be traced back to two key changes in pain management
We are witnessing widespread abuse of legal, prescribed drugs that, while structurally similar to illicit opioids such as heroin, are used for sound medical practices. So how did we get here?
Chronic pain and infertility: the trauma of untreated pelvic inflammatory disease
Pelvic inflammatory disease's traumatic consequences are unmatched by the low level of awareness around it. Left untreated, it can cause chronic pelvic pain, ectopic pregnancy and infertility.
Can we curb the opioid abuse epidemic by rethinking chronic pain?
A sea change in pain treatment helped create the opioid abuse epidemic, and another sea change in how doctors view chronic pain could help curb it.
Hidden and unexplained: feeling the pain of fibromyalgia
Unexplained, chronic pain known as fibromyalgia affects up to 5% of the population. Yet there are no effective treatment options for the millions for whom each day begins with persistent pain.
Not helping a partner with chronic pain may be the quickest road to recovery
A significant decider of why some manage with chronic pain and some are disabled is the way their partners respond to them.
Pain drain: the economic and social costs of chronic pain
Pain management is one of the most neglected aspects of health care; our failure to adequately address chronic pain is a major driver of its economic and social burden.
Explainer: what is pain and what is happening when we feel it?
Pain scientists are reasonably agreed that pain is an unpleasant feeling in our body that makes us want to stop and change our behaviour.
How music can help relieve chronic pain
We've learned a lot about how music can help with pain and a score of other clinical problems. But with chronic pain affecting a quarter of us, it's an area that has received too little attention.
Health Check: what causes headaches?
Nearly every second person in the world had a headache at least once in the past year. But these can feel very different, depending on which of the nearly 200 types of headache you have.
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Clinical Senior Lecturer at Deakin University School of Medicine & Pain Specialist, Deakin University
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Professor of Clinical Neurosciences and Foundation Chair in Physiotherapy, University of South Australia
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Neuroscientist, Monash University
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Philosopher; Pharmacology research student, University of Sydney
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Group Leader, Pain Research, Neuroscience Program, Garvan Institute
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Professor of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy, Curtin University
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Research Fellow, Palliative Medicine Physician, Monash University
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Research Fellow in Brain Plasticity and Rehabilitation, Western Sydney University
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Senior Research Officer, Neuroscience Research Australia
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PhD candidate, Neuroscience Research Australia
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NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Professor, and Group Leader, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
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