Researchers have mapped the genes that control pain perception in fruit flies, mice, and potentially humans. The map consists…
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PANACEA OR PLACEBO – A weekly series assessing the evidence behind complementary and alternative medicines. Myotherapy was developed by American Bonnie Prudden in the 1970s as a system of treating painful…
Everybody hurts, but not everybody keeps hurting. The unlucky few who do end up on a downward spiral of economic, social and physical disadvantage. While we don’t know why some people don’t recover from…
Imagine that a soft touch or brush of the skin was enough to evoke excruciating pain. This experience is common among people who suffer with chronic pain from nerve damage. The causes are varied and include…
People with resigned attitudes to work are more likely to suffer from persistent lower back pain than those with positive…
Laughing with friends for around 15 minutes boosts a person’s pain threshold by an average of 10%, an international study…
British researchers say they have identified the gene that controls chronic pain, opening the door to new drug therapies…
Switch on daytime television on any given day and you’d be forgiven for thinking there was a cure for the debilitating and dreaded condition, osteoarthritis. Unfortunately, there’s not. And that’s not…
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Conjoint Clinical Associate Professor, Deakin University School of Medicine and Specialist Pain Medicine Physician, Deakin University
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Professor of Clinical Neurosciences and Foundation Chair in Physiotherapy, University of South Australia
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Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Monash Addiction Research Centre, Monash University
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Professor of Population Health Science, University of Dundee
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Bath
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Professor of Pharmacology, University of Arizona
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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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Palliative Medicine Physician, Research Fellow, Monash University
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Research Fellow in Brain Plasticity and Pain, Neuroscience Research Australia
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Richard Gunderman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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PhD candidate, Neuroscience Research Australia
