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Whether you're a human, a dog or even a horse – how you handle pain will depend on how emotionally stable and guarded you are.
A new study shows that stress, fatigue, and even feelings of injustice are felt more strongly by those who have been suffering from chronic pain for three or more months.
What can we learn about cats from their faces?
It's often said that "bad posture" can cause neck pain but science seems to indicate that other factors might be at play.
Women with endometriosis pay an average of $1,200 in out-of-pocket health costs a year. When you add lost wages and productivity, the costs add up to $30,000 per sufferer every year.
Your doctor might be more interested in having a "pain conversation".
A sociologist spent over a year interviewing black, white and Latino residents of a declining coal town in central Pennsylvania, plumbing the sources of their political disillusionment.
Not a single trial has investigated the best painkillers to use for children with cancer.
People with fibromyalgia live with chronic pain all over their body. And not all treatments work for everyone.
Many of the gels, toys or therapies recommended to help kids through teething may be dangerous. So, what's a parent to do?
You are tired. Would nine more minutes really hurt? Is hitting the snooze button a good idea? Should you just get out of bed? Or is snoozing a sign of a more serious medical issue?
With the opioid crisis there is no doubt that physicians need safer, nonaddictive pain killers. Now new insights on how to create these are coming from an unlikely source: the naked mole rat.
Some people argue the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, you just need to keep looking. But there are occasions where finding no evidence is all you can do.
A policy response focused on reducing prescription opioids will not resolve North America's opioid crisis. And it is hurting many adults who live with otherwise unbearable chronic pain.
Life without pain might seem like a blessing. But pain plays an important role in protecting our bodies from further damage.
Marijuana is known for delivering a good high. But the plant's uses go well beyond the recreational. Marijuana contains a trove of medicinal compounds whose uses we are just now discovering.
Palliative radiation therapy can improve a cancer patient's life, by alleviating pain and other symptoms. Unfortunately, some doctors associate the term with end-of-life care and fail to refer people.
The brain itself can’t actually feel pain. It can't sense damage to itself the way your finger can. We know this because people can have brain surgery while they are totally awake.
If you believe that physiotherapy will help your shoulder pain, it probably will.
Top contributors
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Clinical associate professor, Deakin University School of Medicine and Pain Specialist, Deakin University
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Professor, University of Bath
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Professor of Clinical Neurosciences and Foundation Chair in Physiotherapy, University of South Australia
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Clinical Psychologist, Deakin University
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Senior Research Officer, Neuroscience Research Australia
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Reader in Clinical Health Psychology & Science, Medicine & Society Network, UCL
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Lecturer in the School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut School of Nursing; Assistant Director, UCONN Center for Advancement in Managing Pain, University of Connecticut
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Laureate Professor of Mathematics, University of Newcastle
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ARC Future Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Population Health, The University of Queensland
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Director, Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre & Professor of Addiction Studies, Monash University
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Neuroscientist, Monash University
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Professor Emeritus, The University of Queensland
