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Breast-feeding blocks pain of infant vaccination
• Children's Health • • Pain • Apr 15 09
Turkish investigators report that breast-feeding an infant appears to significantly reduce the pain associated with vaccination.
“Even young children have a pain memory,…
Caffeine may lessen exercisers’ muscle pain
• Dieting • • Pain • Apr 09 09
A couple cups of coffee before a tough workout may lower the chances of sore muscles later on, a small study suggests.
The researchers…
Prescription painkiller relieves shingles pain
• Pain • Apr 06 09
A study shows that the powerful prescription painkiller oxycodone is an effective treatment for the sometimes excruciating pain of shingles.
Shingles is caused by…
Pain Meds Are Most Common Cause of Death after Spinal Fusion Surgery
• Backache • • Pain • Apr 01 09
Pain medications are involved in more than 20 percent of deaths occurring in the years after spinal fusion surgery for low back pain, reports…
Sugar eases pain, and more, for newborns
• Children's Health • • Pain • Mar 28 09
Giving newborn babies sugar water during a needlestick or other painful procedures is known to ease the pain they feel, and now it seems…
Program Helps Improve Management of Chronic Pain
• Pain • Mar 25 09
Patients with chronic pain who took part in a collaborative care intervention that included patient and clinician education and symptom monitoring and feedback to…
Acupuncture may help cancer patients’ pain -expert
• Alternative Medicine • • Pain • Mar 16 09
Acupuncture can be used to help relieve the pain of cancer patients, as well as the nausea and vomiting induced by chemotherapy, a leading…
Research Uncovers Promising Target to Treat Chronic Abdominal Pain
• Pain • Mar 03 09
High levels of a protein linked to the way pain signals are sent to the brain led to a decrease in abdominal pain in…
Got Pain?
• Arthritis • • Pain • Feb 26 09
Tying a shoe, typing an email, opening a jar, texting on a Blackberry. The mobility of our fingers and wrists can often be taken…
Routine scans for low-back pain do not improve outcomes
• Backache • • Pain • Feb 06 09
Physicians should not immediately order routine scans for low-back pain unless they observe features of a serious underlying condition, researchers in the Oregon Evidence-Based…
Pain relieving effects of acupuncture are limited
• Alternative Medicine • • Pain • Jan 28 09
The pain relieving effects of acupuncture compared with placebo are small and seem to lack clinical relevance, according to a study published on bmj.com…
I feel your pain: Neural mechanisms of empathy
• Pain • Jan 28 09
Is it possible to share a pain that you observe in another but have never actually experienced yourself? A new study uses a sophisticated…
Prescription Opioid Abuse, Addiction Less Common Than Many Believe
• Drug Abuse • • Pain • Jan 16 09
The abuse and addiction potentials of opioid analgesics prescribed for patients with chronic pain have been of great concern. However, current research indicates…
Pain Treatment Research Reports Often Cannot Be Trusted
• Pain • Jan 14 09
Undertreated pain is a worldwide problem and much of the published research behind so-called evidence-based pain management practices cannot be trusted. “Journals, conferences, and…
Women More Likely than Men to be Hospitalized for Chest Pain
• Gender: Female • • Heart • • Pain • Nov 24 08
Women are more likely than men to be hospitalized for chest pain for which doctors cannot find a cause, according to the latest News…
Fibromyalgia can no longer be called the ‘invisible’ syndrome
• Pain • • Rheumatic Diseases • Nov 04 08
Using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), researchers in France were able to detect functional abnormalities in certain regions in the brains of patients…
Pain automatically activates facial muscle groups
• Pain • Oct 27 08
A study has found that people who facially express pain in a more intense way are not exaggerating if their perception of a…
New Therapy May Fight Knee Osteoarthritis Pain
• Arthritis • • Pain • • Rheumatic Diseases • Oct 26 08
A clinical trial of a novel drug known as tanezumab has shown that treatment once every eight weeks significantly reduces pain in patients with…
Ancient Chinese Exercise Relieves Knee Pain
• Alternative Medicine • • Chinese Medicine • • Pain • • Rheumatic Diseases • Oct 26 08
Tai chi is effective in the treatment of pain and physical impairment in people with severe knee osteoarthritis, according to research presented this week…
Study Shows Opioid Painkillers Help Workers with Low Back Pain
• Backache • • Pain • Sep 22 08
For workers with chronic low back pain, taking opioid pain medications can significantly improve their ability to lift and perform other work-related physical tasks,…
Pain Perception – It’s All in the Genes
• Genetics • • Pain • • Surgery • Aug 22 08
Previous studies have shown that women experience more severe postoperative pain and require more narcotics than men in the early postoperative period. A study…
Exercise unlikely to curb migraine pain: experts
• Pain • Jul 02 08
Exercise does not appear to reduce migraine attacks or their duration, although it may cut down on the intensity of the headache pain in…
Newborns in ICUs Often Undergo Painful Procedures
• Children's Health • • Pain • Jul 02 08
An examination of newborn intensive care finds that newborns undergo numerous procedures that are associated with pain and stress, and that many of…
When Walking Hurts: What You Can Do About Leg Pain
• Pain • • Trauma & Injuries • May 29 08
Walking often tops the list of good ways to get exercise. But walking isn’t easy for everyone. A number of conditions can cause leg…
More Than 25 Percent of Americans Experience Pain
• Pain • May 02 08
Based on a random survey of nearly 4,000 respondents in the United States, Arthur A. Stone, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair, Department of…