As a psoriatic arthritis patient, describing your pain to your doctor is not always easy. Many patients have spent years bouncing from their general physician to different specialists, only to have ...

Experts highlight “nociplastic pain,” a newly defined pain mechanism changing how chronic pain is understood and treated Many chronic pain patients suffer not from damage, but from a sensitized ...

How do the normal pains of everyday life, such as headaches and backaches, influence our ability to think? Recent studies suggest that healthy individuals in pain also show deficits in working memory ...

Where do you turn to for help when your back surgery fails to provide pain relief or improved functioning? Do you elect to undergo more surgery? From 1998 to 2008, the number of low-back surgeries in ...

When Dr. Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen needs to explain pain, he often talks about David Beckham. Back in 2010, Beckham tore his Achilles in an AC Milan game and cameras caught a lesson in the weird ways that ...

Pain is something we all experience, but for children, understanding and navigating it can be particularly challenging. Whether it's physical pain from a bruised knee or the emotional sting of a ...

Fatigue occurs for three reasons. In most instances, it is the normal reaction of the body to lack of sleep, overwork, acute illness and acute mental stress. It is a powerful physical reaction to ...

Robert Sorge was studying pain in mice in 2009, but he was the one who ended up with a headache. At McGill University in Montreal, Canada, Sorge was investigating how animals develop an extreme ...