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Once thought of as psychogenic in etiology, researchers are gaining a better understanding the neural mechanisms of phantom pain.
Once thought of as psychogenic in etiology, researchers are gaining a better understanding the neural mechanisms of phantom pain.
The Institute of Medicine has estimated that chronic pain affects approximately 100 million adults in the United States, with an estimated annual cost of up to $635 billion.
It is not hard to understand that pain can make sleep difficult, but how does sleep disturbance drive pain sensitivity?
Developing drugs that selectively block specific sodium channels could be the holy grail of neuropathic pain treatment.
Treating this neuropathic pain condition can be complicated because of polypharmacy, drug dosing schedules, adverse events, drug-drug interactions, and patient comorbidities.
In this feature, Clinical Pain Advisor explores the the roots of the current heroin epidemic facing the United States, and how chronic pain patients prescribed opioids are affected by it.
Oral malignancies can be associated with increased pain, but current research suggests that a cannabis-based medication may reduce this morbidity.
More than $1 billion worth of OTC therapeutic magnets have been sold worldwide to date, but are they useful for muscle pain?
Research on the relationship between footwear, injury and subsequent pain rates is limited. A switch to a minimalist shoe or barefoot running should be done gradually.
Sometimes patients complaining of chronic pain are drug seeking, but isn’t addiction a form of pain as well?