Are you interested in learning more about acute and chronic pain without having to dig through academic articles? These essays and brief articles provide information on various aspects of pain in an easy-to-read format.
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Prevalence and Impact of Chronic Pain in the United States
1. Prevalence of Chronic Pain
Chronic pain remains a major public health issue in the United Stat...
Pain is what you feel
April 27, 2016
This simple statement is obvious on the face of it. But it has implications that are not necessar...
Some pain is good for you
Generally, we think of pain as a bad thing — something to avoid. And, in fact, avoiding pai...
Other pain is not so good for you
On the other hand, when pain becomes a chronic condition and no longer serves as a warning system...
The neurobiology of pain
Pain, like every other sensory and emotional experience we have, arises from activity in the brai...
The psychology of pain
Although we can talk about pain as a sensory phenomenon, in the same way that we talk about other...
We have built-in analgesic systems
Not only do our brains have systems to process information from nociceptors and register pain, we...
Placebos are real
This statement may seem curious, or downright nonsensical. But, the meaning of this statement dep...
Recent high-quality review of neuropathic pain
Colloca, L. et al. Neuropathic pain. Nat. Rev. Dis. Primers3, 17002 (2016). The article can be re...
What a "10" on the 0-10 pain scale looks like
Click "here" to see what a "10 on the 0-10 pain scale looks like.
