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Facebook Tweet Email Link Nearly impossible to measure, quantify, convey, pain is a truly mysterious human sensation. For the last 25 years in my life as a neurosurgeon, I have seen a lot of pain and suffering firsthand, so much of it chronic, persistent and difficult to treat. That is why I spent the past three years digging deep into …

A small change in how you walk may help reduce knee pain  The Washington Post No Pills, No Surgery: Scientists Discover Simple Way To Relieve Arthritis Pain  SciTechDaily This is the secret to managing osteoarthritis  USA Today Small change to how you walk may help relieve osteoarthritis pain  MedicalNewsToday This small walking style change can delay knee surgery for years, study finds  The Independent Source …

When most animals are hurt, they lash out or run away. It’s the classic fight-or-flight response. However, the tobacco hornworm caterpillar (Manduca sexta) has a very different strategy. When disturbed or in pain, it goes still, curling its head and upper body downward in a pose that researchers call the sphinx state, since it looks like the ancient Egyptian statue. …

Philadelphia Transit Cuts Take Hold, and Commuters Begin to Feel the Pain  The New York Times SEPTA cuts have begun. What do you need to know about the changes?  WHYY SEPTA riders scrambling to find alternate routes with cuts in effect  6abc Philadelphia Phillies fans slowed but not deterred by SEPTA service cuts  Inquirer.com SEPTA service cuts take effect on Sunday: Here’s what you …

A simple change in walking style may help people with knee osteoarthritis reduce pain and protect their joints. Researchers found that personalized gait retraining rivaled medication in effectiveness, opening the door to a new kind of treatment. Credit: Stock A new study led by a Utah engineering professor shows that gait retraining can reduce pain and slow cartilage damage. Almost …

Being given a medical diagnosis can itself bring relief from pain—even when it doesn’t lead to treatment, experts say. Psychiatrists from James Madison University and Case Western Reserve University say that putting a label on a problem can make symptoms easier to bear, a phenomenon they have dubbed the ‘Rumpelstiltskin Effect’.  The name comes from the fairy tale character whose …

Summary: Chronic pain affects millions, but opioid medications bring high risks of dependence and side effects. Researchers have now pinpointed specific neurons in the amygdala that make pain feel unpleasant, opening the door to drugs that ease suffering without shutting down normal sensation. With a new $12 million NIH grant, scientists are working to design small molecules that target these …

I was too young to be waking up in pain. A GLP-1 helped me get my rheumatoid arthritis and weight under control.  yahoo.com Source link

CHRONIC PAIN wrecks the lives of more than 600m people around the world. One in five adults struggles with it. What causes it, however, is often a mystery. The prevailing hypothesis is that, after an injury, something goes wrong with the body’s pain receptors and the alarm system that reports injuries to the brain keeps ringing long after the body …

Study Population The UKB is a prospective cohort study that has collected extensive phenotypic and genetic data from approximately 500,000 participants across the United Kingdom21,45. All of the participants provided written informed consent. Phenotype description and assessment Phenotypes were defined using the ‘Experience of Pain’ UKB self-assessment questionnaire data under project ID 49572. This is part of the online UKB …