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Articles on Pain
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Pain is a subjective experience that often relies on talking to patients so it’s harder to know what animals think.
Why men need to start taking care of themselves.
People develop a long-term problem after an episode of back pain if they expect to not recover. Steps by the medical sector to avoid catatrophising back pain by not suggesting scans will help.
It won’t be long until patients like me can ward off pain using virtual reality.
The idea that we can achieve happiness by maximising pleasure and minimising pain is both intuitive and popular. The truth is, however, very different.
One in five of us has been experiencing chronic pain over the past three months, or longer. Chronic pain won’t kill us; it just makes our lives miserable. More miserable, research suggests, than for example…
Will we ever have a scientific measure of consciousness? This was the essay topic I set my student a few months ago – only days before I went on maternity leave for the recent birth of my baby Joe (more…
A study has found the immune system is not working properly in people suffering from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), which…
Whether it’s a few flakes on a pizza or the spiciest vindaloo known to humankind, most people can tolerate or even enjoy the tingling, burning sensation chilli can bring. So how does chilli deliver its…
Chronic pain, defined as disabling pain that persists despite attempts at treatment and often without obvious cause, has become a serious challenge for health professionals. It is not surprising that someone…
Researchers have found people who use weight training machines and stretching as part of their exercise routines are at a…
The prevalence of itches and pain in patients with skin cancer can help clinicians identify which of these cancers are melanoma…
Commonly used over-the-counter painkillers such as paracetamol, aspirin and ibuprofen will usually be strong enough to alleviate common aches and pains. But if you’re suffering from acute pain from dental…
Almost all of us have either had it, or can look forward to getting it in our lifetime. In fact, somewhere between about a tenth to a third of us have back pain right now. So is back pain just something…
Pain is one of the most powerful weapons of war. Western Front soldier and poet Siegfried Sassoon dubbed war a “sausage machine” because it tore through and crushed tissues and organs, and dismembered…
It’s a commonly held belief that women are better able to tolerate pain than men. The reasoning behind this is often that women are built to withstand pain because of how frequently they experience pain…
Surprisingly for such a universal experience, pain is profoundly misrepresented by common myths about what it is and what it means. These are rooted in dualistic models: the body as a simple machine and…
A computer system has been developed that can tell whether facial expressions of pain are real or fake – with possible implications for those of us who fake the occasional “sickie”. A study, published…
We now know that there’s much more to pain than simply what is happening in the painful body part, and attention has turned to the role of the brain. But not even this mysterious organ can tell us everything…
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Conjoint Clinical Associate Professor, Deakin University School of Medicine and Specialist Pain Medicine Physician, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Physiotherapy, University of Technology Sydney
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Bradley Distinguished Professor, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor at NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Psychology, University of Bath
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Professor of Medical and Feminist Anthropology, Birmingham City University
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Professor in Neuroimmunopharmacology, Adelaide University
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Reader in Clinical Health Psychology & Science, Medicine & Society Network, UCL
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Associate Professor and Psychologist in Pediatric Pain, University of Calgary
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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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Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Anschutz
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Lecturer in the School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Research Officer, Neuroscience Research Australia
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Clinical pharmacist and Scientia Associate Professor at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW
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Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford