Researchers in the Psychology Department recently published articles exploring how pain in young adults can lead to cannabis ...

“When I started the running, I didn’t have anything specific in mind and I didn’t know where it would take me. It grew and grew, and a friend said that if I was going to do it fulltime, and run for ...

The study results "signal unmet needs and potentially undertreated pain in patients with cancer,” researchers wrote.

Nearly a century has passed since writer Virginia Woolf alerted us to the breakdown of language when confronted with pain.

Anyone who suffers from chronic low back pain knows how difficult it can be to manage, and how quickly it can turn the most ...

If you have chest pain on the left side, your first thought may be that you’re having a heart attack. While chest pain can be a symptom of heart problems, that’s not always the case.

a rare condition that on the McGill pain scale is thought to rival childbirth or amputation of a finger or toe. Experiencing full-blown symptoms in 2021, the condition spread, she says, after a ...

When you bump your knee, cut your lip, or twist your ankle, the sudden, sharp feeling is somatic pain. Somatic pain is generally described as musculoskeletal pain. Nociceptors in the skin, muscles, ...

Not all bathroom scales are as accurate as you might expect – especially body fat scales that promise to track more than just your weight. We tested smart, digital and mechanical bathroom scales from ...

But it only reduced the intensity of pain by an average of 7.9 points on a 0-to-100 pain scale — less than what most doctors consider to be a clinically meaningful difference. Say a patient ...

Yet, this is the very essence of the common 0-to-10 pain scale used in healthcare. Asking kids to understand 'ten'—the 'worst pain imaginable'—revealed the inherent limitations of this ...