Can how patients describe their pain help you determine the underlying cause? Researchers studied 228 patients with an acute toothache and found that words matters. Researchers from the New York ...

The largest contributor to global disability is low back pain, for which various treatments are available but are of limited efficacy. International clinical guidelines recommend low-dose ...

It’s an experience that most everyone has had at a doctor or hospital visit, where at some point, usually early on, the question ‘on a scale of 0-10, what’s your level of pain?’ comes up. Then, before ...

Cardiff University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. The last time you went to see a doctor, it was probably because you were in pain – it’s by far the main reason people ...

Pain scales are tools for people to describe the level of pain they experience. Healthcare workers can also use pain scale charts to assess patients. There are several different pain scales, each with ...

In a racially diverse sample, higher body responsiveness is associated with fewer depressive symptoms among individuals with chronic pain.

Background: Numerical rating scales (NRS), and verbal rating scales (VRS) showed to be reliable and valid tools for subjective cancer pain measurement, but no one of them consistently proved to be ...

Could the way doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals measure a patient’s pain be contributing to the epidemic of opioid addiction? Indeed it could, says an article in this week’s New ...

Positron Emission Tomography Score Has Greater Prognostic Significance Than Pretreatment Risk Stratification in Early-Stage Hodgkin Lymphoma in the UK RAPID Study Electronic databases were searched ...

Objective (1) To explore the level of association between kinesiophobia and pain, disability and quality of life in people with chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) detected via cross-sectional analysis ...