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Study Shows Unique Characteristics of Acute vs. Chronic Low Back Pain
• Backache • • Pain • Jul 31 11
By some estimates, up to 85 percent of Americans have experienced low back pain and research reported in The Journal of Pain showed that…
Yoga boosts stress-busting hormone, reduces pain: York U study
• Alternative Medicine • • Pain • Jul 27 11
A new study by York University researchers finds that practicing yoga reduces the physical and psychological symptoms of chronic pain in women with fibromyalgia.
…Chronic pain in homeless people not managed well: Study
• Pain • Jul 22 11
Chronic pain is not managed well in the general population and it’s an even greater challenge for homeless people, according to new research by…
Does Botox help neck pain?
• Pain • Jul 06 11
The ingredient in a Botox injection probably won’t help ease neck pain, nor will it help neck pain sufferers do physical activities any better…
Sunburn offers clues for pain drug development
• Pain • • Skin Care • Jul 06 11
Scientists have found a molecule in the body which controls sensitivity to pain from UVB irradiation, or sunburn, and say it may help them…
Research examines dentists’ role in painkiller abuse
• Dental Health • • Pain • Jul 03 11
In the cover article of this month’s Journal of the American Dental Association, a group of nine dentists, pharmacists, and addiction experts provides new…
Music therapy relieves fibromyalgia symptoms and improves patients’ quality of life
• Alternative Medicine • • Depression • • Pain • May 26 11
University of Granada researchers have proven that music therapy combined with other relax techniques based on guided imagery reduces significantly pain, depression and anxiety,…
Crossing your arms relieves pain
• Pain • May 22 11
Published in the current issue of the journal PAIN, the research shows that crossing your arms over the midline (an imaginary line running vertically…
Pretty Shoes Can Lead to Ugly Foot Problems for Women
• Gender: Female • • Pain • May 22 11
According to a recent study, 39 percent of women say they wear high heels every day, and 75 percent of those women say they…
American Pain Society Honors Clinical Centers of Excellence in Pain Management Award Recipients
• Pain • • Public Health • May 19 11
The American Pain Society (APS), http://www.ampainsoc.org, today honored the recipients of its fifth annual Clinical Centers of Excellence in Pain Management Awards recognizing…
Errors put infants, children at risk for overdose of painkillers
• Children's Health • • Pain • May 01 11
Parents who give young children prescription painkillers should take extra care to make sure they give just the right amount. What they may be…
How can we measure infants’ pain after an operation?
• Children's Health • • Pain • Apr 20 11
It turns out to be difficult to find out exactly how much a child who cannot yet speak suffers after a surgical operation. Researchers…
Managing pain – a family affair
• Children's Health • • Pain • Apr 11 11
Could adult children’s strategies for coping with pain come from watching their parents react to and deal with pain? According to Suzyen Kraljevic, from…
Demystifying Meditation – Brain Imaging Illustrates How Meditation Reduces Pain
• Brain • • Pain • Apr 05 11
Meditation produces powerful pain-relieving effects in the brain, according to new research published in the April 6 edition of the Journal of Neuroscience.
Children’s pain in hospital undertreated: study
• Children's Health • • Pain • Apr 05 11
A look at Canadian children’s hospitals finds that doctors aren’t documenting pain relief for the majority of painful or uncomfortable procedures kids experience in…
For back, neck pain, artificial disc replacement has cost, outcome advantages over fusion surgery
• Pain • • Surgery • Mar 22 11
When physical therapy and drugs fail to relieve back or neck pain, patients often turn to spinal fusion surgery as a last resort, but…
New Perspective Diminishes Racial Bias in Pain Treatment
• Pain • Mar 07 11
Years of research show black patients getting less treatment in the American health care system than their white counterparts, but a new study suggests…
Weight Loss Improves Knee Pain From Common Arthritic Condition, Study Says
• Arthritis • • Pain • • Weight Loss • Feb 21 11
Knee pain related to osteoarthritis (OA) is a common complaint among obese individuals and retired professional athletes, especially former NFL players, but researchers presenting…
Injections are less painful if you don’t look away, scientists claim
• Pain • Feb 11 11
Injection are less painful if you resist the natural impulse to look away, scientists have claimed.
The body naturally reduces the pain experienced…
Look at your body to reduce pain
• Pain • Feb 10 11
Simply looking at your body reduces pain, according to new research by scientists from UCL (University College London) and the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
…Retired NFL players misuse painkillers more than general population
• Pain • Jan 28 11
Retired NFL players use painkillers at a much higher rate than the rest of us, according to new research conducted by investigators at Washington…
Study Probes Obesity Link to Fibromyalgia
• Obesity • • Pain • Dec 29 10
Afflicting up to 5 percent of the U.S. population, mostly women, fibromyalgia is characterized by widespread pain and range of function problems. A new…
Study Assesses How Parents Rate Ear Aches in Preverbal Children
• Ear / Nose / Throat • • Pain • Dec 29 10
Levels of pain severity from ear aches observed and reported by parents of preverbal children can be influenced as much by socioeconomic status and…
Spinal ‘Botox’ Injection May Have Useful Pain-Reducing Effect
• Pain • Dec 21 10
Botulinum neurotoxin type A (BoNT/A) - better known as Botox - reduces responses to an inflammation-related pain stimulus when injected into the spinal canal…
Ion Channel Responsible for Pain Identified
• Pain • Dec 19 10
University at Buffalo neuroscience researchers conducting basic research on ion channels have demonstrated a process that could have a profound therapeutic impact on pain.
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