Once used mainly for distraction, VR is now being studied as a way to retrain the brain’s pain pathways—especially for people ...

Personalized care for chronic low back pain led to improvements in physical and mental health measures, pain intensity, and reduced falls among older adults.

An AI-derived multidimensional health state metric was developed to track chronic pain patterns more effectively than pain intensity alone.

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 ...

Chronic pain continues to be one of the most challenging health problems that exists. Sadly, the suffering from chronic pain often flummoxes the medical community and leads to people feeling ignored ...

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; ...

Megan Hodge’s first bout of intense pain arrived when she was in her mid-20s. Hodge and her husband were getting ready to visit family for Thanksgiving. Though Hodge had been dealing with a variety of ...

After developing chronic pain, I started looking into what scientists do — and still don’t — understand about the disease. Here is what I learned. By Jennifer Kahn Most of us don’t think about pain ...