At WashU Medicine Pain Center, specialists across disciplines collaborate to diagnose and treat how patients experience chronic pain.

A Biblical Understanding of Pain by John Timmerman ’67, Calvin English professor emeritus, Eugene, Ore.: Cascade Books, 2013, 118 pp., $16. John Timmerman has coped with his share of pain during his ...

VIRTUALLY every man has experienced pain and therefore knows just how it feels. But he cannot tell anybody else what it is really like. Pain cannot even be precisely defined. Lay and medical ...

When Dr. Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen needs to explain pain, he often talks about David Beckham. Back in 2010, Beckham tore his Achilles in an AC Milan game and cameras caught a lesson in the weird ways that ...

Acupuncture reduces excess inflammation by supporting the body’s immune response, which speeds healing and naturally reduces pain.

Most people consider chronic pain—such as pain that lasts for months or years from a bad back or arthritis—a medical condition that should be treated exclusively by a physician or physical therapist.

When you break your leg, undergo surgery, or burn your hand, you experience pain—acute pain. With treatment and time, the pain usually disappears. But chronic pain is different. It hangs around even ...

We've all heard someone claim they have a "high pain threshold" as if it's a mark of strength or resilience. But does science support the idea that some people genuinely feel less pain than others?

Dr Abigail Lindo, Registered Physiotherapist Lower back pain is one of the most common health complaints in the world. According to the World Health ...

Researchers have investigated how philosophical approaches can be used to think in new ways about pain and its management. The researchers advocate not merely reducing chronic pain management to ...

Researchers from the University College London have brought us one step closer to understanding how we feel pain. Their study, published in Brain, describes a rare genetic mutation found in a patient ...

Joshua Pate has received speaker fees for presentations on pain and physiotherapy. He receives royalties for children's books. Tory Madden receives funding from the National Institutes of Health for ...