Stephen Fry has said he sometimes thought of his chronic pain "as a friend" as he tried to manage his condition after an accident. The actor was injured in a 6ft (1.8m) fall from a stage at London's ...
Migraine is the most common neurological condition in the world, with more than one in seven people suffering from migraines ...
The NHS has listed what it believes to be the 20 top most painful conditions a person can suffer from. While there are several things on the list that you'd expect to see, such as heart attacks, ...
"Chronic pain does not fit at all into the biomedical belief system.... so a lot of the people we see in specialist pain services get the kind of message that 'Oh, your pain is all in your head ...
sending messages via an electrical signal to the brain. Normal pain—as in a minor headache—can be relieved by a few aspirins or the passage of time. But chronic pain is something different ...
A University of Sydney study suggests that integrating lifestyle support into chronic low back pain treatment can ...
Objectives Nerve growth factor (NGF) has emerged as a key driver of pain in osteoarthritis (OA) and antibodies to NGF are potent analgesics in human disease. Here, we validate a novel vaccine strategy ...