Pain

Pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in term...

Eye Pain

Scrotal Pain

Neuropathic Pain

Pain and swelling

A New Way to Measure Pain?

Investigators test an fMRI-based neurologic signature to measure pain. Medscape Neurology

Unique approaches to improve pain management in hospitals and clinical practices

Five recent Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing DNP graduates have taken different and unique approaches in working to improve the implementation of pain management in hospitals and clinical pr...

Pain Measured With Brain Scans

Neurologists may have found a scientific, objective way to measure pain.

Discovery could eventually help diagnose and treat chronic pain

More than 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain. But treating and studying chronic pain is complex and presents many challenges. Scientists have long searched for a method to objectively meas...

First objective measure of pain discovered in brain scan patterns

For the first time, scientists have been able to predict how much pain people are feeling by looking at images of their brains, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.

Avilex: One-two pain punch

Avilex's dimeric inhibitor of PSD95 could offer a potent treatment for chronic pain without cognitive side effects of other approaches in NMDA pathway.

Brain Scan Offers First Objective Measure Of Pain

Using fMRI scans of the brain, US scientists have for the first time developed a method of "seeing" pain and suggest it may lead to reliable ways for doctors to quantify objectively how much pain pat...

Study shows pain really is all in your head, and you can see it

Researchers say they’ve figured out an objective way to measure pain -- by imaging the brain’s response, in real time. They used a type of brain scanner called functional magnetic resonanc...

Suprathreshold Heat Pain Response Is Associated With Clinical Pain Intensity for Patients With Shoulder Pain.

Quantitative sensory testing (QST) has become commonly used for the assessment of pain in subjects with clinical conditions. However, there is no consensus about which type of QST is the best predicto...

The relationship between acceptance, catastrophizing and illness representations in chronic pain.

BACKGROUND: Cognitive- and acceptance-based approaches are used to help people live with chronic pain. Little is known about how these constructs relate to each other. In this study, we examined how c...

Transforming pain medicine: Adapting to science and society.

The field of chronic pain medicine is currently facing enormous challenges. The incidence of chronic pain is increasing worldwide, particularly in the developed world. As a result, chronic pain is imp...

Myofascial pain in the adolescent.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Whereas in the recent past pain in the child and adolescent was directed to cancer management, there is increasing interest in pain in children and adolescents in relation to nonmal...

Nursing's Role in Cancer Pain Management.

Nurses have advanced practice, research, and education in the field of cancer pain management. This paper highlights the contributions nurses have made to pain science and practice through literature...