Chronic pain has a personalized "brain fingerprint," allowing AI to decode spontaneous pain levels through fMRI scans.
After becoming pain patients themselves, these physicians say they faced a system built to treat anatomy, not suffering. The lessons were humbling — and transformative.
When you strain your back or burn your arm, receptor cells send messages along your nerve pathways to your brain. This results in a feeling of pain, a signal from your body that you must tend to it; ...
People with chronic back pain process everyday sounds differently, and more intensely, than people without pain, according to ...
We recently had the opportunity to chat about pain psychology, her work in reducing chronic pain, and the future of personalized medicine and where pain psychology fits in. I hope you find that her ...
Almost everyone has pain sometimes. It might start as a twinge in your back, a dull ache in your knee, a tingling on the bottoms of your feet. Maybe you slept funny, or hoisted a full bag of groceries ...
Dr. Adriaan Louw has heard the term "pain revolution" before. The physical therapist and scientist has been researching chronic pain for more than 30 years. Over the decades, he has witnessed the rise ...