Eighty-nine percent of patients with CP have one or more documented pain diagnoses; 38.8% of patients had nociceptive pain only. HealthDay News — Most patients (89%) with cerebral palsy (CP) have one ...

Nociceptive pain in shoulders, arms and hands can be triggered by repetitive musculoskeletal and/or joint movement injury that can occur with repeated transfers, use of a manual wheelchair and other ...

One of the major health problems is pain. Studies indicate that 20% of the general population in both the USA and Europe are suffering from long-term pain. As per the International Association for the ...

The first squeeze of my left thumb is gentle, almost reassuring. I rate it as 0 out of 100 on the pain scale. But as a technician ramps up pressure on the custom-made thumb-squeezing device, it ...

Pain is a constant, complex companion that clinicians often struggle to understand and measure for people living with sickle ...

Chronic pain affects over 50 million adults in the U.S. alone and is a leading cause of disability worldwide (Dahlhamer et al., 2018). Yet not all chronic pain is the same, and understanding what kind ...

Katy Vincent receives research funding from Bayer Healthcare, NIHR, NIH and the EU (IMI2). She has received honoraria and travel expenses in return for consultancy and talks for Bayer Healthcare, ...

Narcotic medications can safely and effectively ease severe, chronic pain in older people with little risk that these patients will seek ever-increasing doses, UCSF medical scientists have found.

We learn early on that our bodies are fragile and we can get hurt if we’re not careful. Children spend the first few years of ...

More than a third of patients with cancer report experiencing "moderate-to-severe cancer-related pain;” 40% of these patients experience “breakthrough pain” on their pain regimens. Opioid analgesics ...