New research shows the way a person with chronic pain responds to limitations to the activities or goals they value can impact their mental wellbeing – even more so than their pain levels.
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Learning about the history of public executions offers insight into our contemporary appetite for – and apathy towards – the suffering of others.
Although chronic pain is recognized by scientists as a disease in its own right, it remains largely under-recognized, under-diagnosed and, above all, associated with numerous prejudices.
Our study also examined the way media coverage may affect a patient’s expectations of cannabis in treating pain.
Surgery is one option to treat endometriosis. Here’s what’s involved.
Studies suggest that marijuana and CBD use might help relieve chronic pain while also reducing a patient’s need for opioids.
Swearing can raise our pain threshold.
Everyday bumps and scrapes are critical learning experiences for young children, and can influence how they interpret and respond to pain or injuries in the future.
An anthropologist explains the power of purification rituals, such as bringing down a building following a tragic occurrence in it, and why they help reduce our anxieties.
Psychosocial and economic stressors can affect health, but neither our doctors nor our health-care system have the tools to integrate these factors into diagnoses or care. Play offers an alternative.
Measures to curb growing rates of opioid use are also making it difficult for people with long-term, chronic pain to get ongoing prescriptions.
New national standards aim to change doctors’ prescribing habits for hospital patients with pain when they’re discharged home. But clinicians also need to ensure patients’ pain is well managed.
Scholars weigh in on the known and unknown about marijuana and its incarnations.
Recent evidence suggests it’s normal for young, healthy and active children to have flexible flat feet. And these flat feet will get less flat over time.
We researched how much difference opioids like codeine, oxycodone or morphine make to osteoarthritis pain. We found they helped about as much as paracetamol. Yet they are far more dangerous.
Restricting drug access can make the overdose crisis worse, not better. A bioethicist explains what that means for an ethical drug policy.
Opioids can cause death by slowing breathing to dangerously low levels, or stopping it altogether. Examining one area of the brain may eventually lead to safer painkillers.
GPs don’t always recognise the metaphors and similes women use to describe their pain – which could mean delays in a diagnosis.
Our research revealed around 40% of women with endometriosis have neuropathic pain – a type of pain that doesn’t respond to traditional pain treatments.
These discoveries could help us treat a variety of conditions in the future – including chronic pain.
Top contributors
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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 Psychology, University of Bath
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Professor of Clinical Neurosciences and Foundation Chair in Physiotherapy, University of South Australia
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Reader in Clinical Health Psychology & Science, Medicine & Society Network, UCL
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Clinical Psychologist, Deakin University
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Senior Research Officer, Neuroscience Research Australia
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PhD Candidate, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Director of the Master of Bioethics degree program at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University
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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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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Keele University
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Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut
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Associate Professor at NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University
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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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Assistant Professor and Psychologist in Pediatric Pain, University of Calgary
