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Chronic pain can drive you to distraction
Anyone who has experienced chronic pain knows that it affects the ability to work, sleep and perform other activities essential to leading a full life. view more (2007-05-18)
Mass media campaigns can alter beliefs about back pain
New research in this week's BMJ finds that mass media campaigns can alter people's beliefs about back pain, improve knowledge and attitudes among doctors and reduce compensation claims for back problems. Researchers in Victoria, Australia measured the effectiveness of a state-wide public health campaign designed to alter beliefs about back pain.... view more... (2001-06-20)
Higher risk of death in heart attack victims with no chest pain
An absence of chest pain during a heart attack increases the risk of death, shows research in Heart. Previous research shows that chest pain is not typical of a heart attack in around one in four patients. The study focused on 3684 admissions to 20 adjacent hospitals in Yorkshire for suspected heart attack for three months in 1995. In 2100 cases a... view more... (2001-10-12)
Rich people don't need friends
In a paper evaluated by f1000 Medicine, six studies tested relationships between reminders of money, social exclusion and physical pain. view more (2009-09-16)
Deliveries that scar the soul
Post-traumatic stress is a serious condition of anxiety that can occur after events like wars, rapes, and assaults. But even seemingly positive experiences such as giving birth to a child can trigger post-traumatic stress. In Linköping researcher Johan Söderquist's studies 1-2 percent of new mothers met the criteria for post-traumatic... view more... (2002-12-13)
Heat halts pain inside the body
The old wives' tale that heat relieves abdominal pain, such as colic or menstrual pain, has been scientifically proven by a UCL (University College London) scientist. view more (2006-07-06)
Exercise more, not less, to ease aching back
People with lower back pain are better off exercising more, not less. view more (2009-06-03)
Limit sucrose as painkiller for newborns
Using sucrose to reduce pain in newborns undergoing painful procedures should be limited to babies having blood taken (venipuncture) for the newborn screening test but not for intramuscular injections, write Dr. Anna Taddio and co-authors. view more (2008-06-30)
Second SPORT Study Shows Surgery Advantage for Spinal Stenosis and Slipped Vertebra
In one of the three most common back conditions for which patients seek treatment, surgery proved to have substantially better results than non-surgical remedies, according to Dartmouth-led research published in the May 31 New England Journal of Medicine. view more (2007-05-31)
Glucosamine supplements reduce knee pain
Glucosamine supplements reduce knee pain in people with cartilage damage and possibly the degenerative joint disease osteoarthritis, concludes research in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. view more (2003-01-24)
Heel to heal
A new stretch is proving quite effective to help treat and potentially cure plantar fasciitis, a condition that affects nearly 2.5 million Americans each year. In a study recently published in Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, researchers found that patients suffering from the painful heel spur syndrome had a 75 percent chance of having no pain... view more... (2006-11-02)
Sense of pain learned by touching
The fact that a newborn baby can experience pain has previously been taken as evidence that pain reflexes are inborn, not learned. This is because the baby in the womb has been protected from everything that could cause pain and should therefore not have been able to learn what pain is. But according to a team of scientists at Lund University,... view more... (2004-05-25)
Rating your pain from 0 to 10 might not help your doctor
The most commonly used measure for pain screening may only be modestly accurate, according to researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina. view more (2007-09-18)
Exercise helps reduce pain in old age
People who exercise regularly experience 25% less muscle and joint pain in their old age than people who are less active. view more (2005-09-19)
Has science unearthed the Holy Grail of pain relief?
Scientists studying one of nature's simplest organisms have helped to unravel the structure of a key molecule that controls pain in humans. view more (2007-07-12)
Psychological intervention reduces postembolization pain
Psychological intervention has been shown to reduce the postembolization pain during hepatic arterial chemoembolizatiom therapy. It is highly recommended as a complementary approach to pharmacological analgesia according to research published in the February 14, 2008 issue of the World Journal of Gastroenterology. view more (2008-03-13)
Study links depression in women with chronic pain to greater incidence of disability
Women with higher levels of depression when suffering with long-term pain report greater disability than men in the same situation. view more (2006-06-16)
Tiny pump means pain relief for big cats
Veterinarians from the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo and the University of Tennessee have found a solution to the challenge of providing effective pain relief to some of their most difficult patients: big cats. view more (2009-09-02)
Pain and stiffness intensity ebb and flow according to body clock in osteoarthritic patients
Levels of pain intensity and arthritic stiffness closely follow the rhythms of the body clock, reveals research in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. view more (2002-11-12)
Predicting quality of life for individuals with chronic pain
People who suffer with chronic pain have a lower quality of life than those with the chronic illness diabetes. view more (2002-11-13)
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