As much as you try to avoid injury, there are times when pain just comes to you. Fate decides to play a cruel game at your ...

One class of drugs has already found success in treating the painful, disorienting and common attacks. Excitement is building ...

Kelly Foltz, CVT, LVT, RVT, VTS (ECC), explains why it's important to have a multimodal approach to analgesics in the ...

(OUCH!) Alternatively, PN can cause the loss of pain sensation in the feet, which can lead to sores, calluses, injuries and infection if left untreated. Studies show that wearing the correct ...

Back pain often happens because something is off in the way your spinal joints, muscles, discs, and nerves fit together and move. Nighttime back pain is a special type of lower back pain that ...

Men and women don’t experience pain the same way. Give someone an electric shock; bind a tourniquet tighter and tighter around their leg; submerge their hand in icy water; prick them with a pin ...

The ouch of hair pulling is transmitted with the help of a protein used to sense light touches. These details could lead to new treatments.

When you want to break bad news, it’s better to just do it quickly; the same goes for anything prompting any kind of physical or emotional pain. But does ripping off a literal bandage quickly ...

The researchers measured pain thresholds using a $5,000 handheld device called a pressure algometer. It’s basically a fancy ...

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For 20 years, doctors told Diana Falzone her pain was normal. “Well, that’s just how it is for some women,” she remembers one saying after she began experiencing unusually heavy and “very, ...