News tagged with chronic pain
How fruit flies can teach us about curing chronic pain and halting mosquito-borne diseases
Studies of a protein that fruit flies use to sense heat and chemicals may someday provide solutions to human pain and the control of disease-spreading mosquitoes.
Dec 06, 2011 |
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Pain research may pave the way to understanding and controlling chronic pain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of California, Davis have discovered a "cross-talk" between two major biological pathways that involve pain -- research that may pave the way to new approaches to understanding ...
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Mar 08, 2011 |
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Switch off enzyme to control chronic pain, say researchers
A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has developed a new drug targeted at parts of the brain and spinal cord associated with pain perception, which may more effectively control chronic pain caused by nerve injuries.
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Jan 12, 2011 |
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Novel approach to chronic pain relief
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists have found what they believe could be a novel approach to more effective, targeted relief of chronic pain caused by nerve injuries. The research, a collaboration ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 02, 2010 |
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Fruit flies lead scientists to new human pain gene
While it has become clear in recent years that susceptibility to pain has a strong inherited component, very little is known about actual "pain genes" and how they work. In the November 12th issue of Cell, researchers at Chi ...
Nov 11, 2010 |
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A little adversity bodes well for those with chronic back pain
A new study by researchers at the University at Buffalo and the University of California, Irvine, to be published in the September issue of the journal Pain, reveals that, for people with chronic back pain, ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 05, 2010 |
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Meditation reduces the emotional impact of pain
People who meditate regularly find pain less unpleasant because their brains anticipate the pain less, a new study has found.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 02, 2010 |
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Researchers find candidate gene culprits for chronic pain
Chronic pain severely limits patients' quality of life and is among the cost drivers in U.S. health care. Patients can suffer pain without an apparent cause and often fail to respond to available treatments. Mayo Clinic researchers ...
May 06, 2010 |
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New virus is not linked to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
(PhysOrg.com) -- New UK research, published today in PLoS ONE, has not reproduced previous findings that suggested Chronic Fatigue Syndrome may be linked to a recently discovered virus. The authors of the ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 06, 2010 |
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Common pain relief medication may encourage cancer growth
Although morphine has been the gold-standard treatment for postoperative and chronic cancer pain for two centuries, a growing body of evidence is showing that opiate-based painkillers can stimulate the growth and spread of ...
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Researchers find explanation for rapid maturation of neurons at birth
At the moment a newborn switches from amniotic fluid to breathing air, another profound shift occurs: nerve cells in the brain convert from hyperexcitability to a calm frame against which outside signals can be detected.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Chinese acupuncture affects brain's ability to regulate pain, study shows
Acupuncture has been used in East-Asian medicine for thousands of years to treat pain, possibly by activating the body's natural painkillers. But how it works at the cellular level is largely unknown.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Long-lasting nerve block could change pain management
(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston have developed a slow-release anesthetic drug-delivery system that could potentially revolutionize treatment of pain during and after surgery, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 14, 2009 |
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Simple bedside test improves diagnosis of chronic back pain, could guide treatment
A simple and inexpensive method of assessing pain, developed by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers, is better than currently used techniques for distinguishing neuropathic pain - pain caused ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 07, 2009 |
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Relief from itch seen in nerves; may aid treatment
(AP) -- Scratch an itch and you get ... aaaaaah. Now scientists have watched spinal nerves transmit that relief signal to the brain in monkeys, a possible step toward finding new treatments for persistent itching in people.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Chronic pain
Chronic pain is defined as pain that persists longer than the temporal course of natural healing, associated with a particular type of injury or disease process.
The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage." Pain is subjective in nature and is defined by the person experiencing it, and the medical community's understanding of chronic pain now includes the impact that the mind has in processing and interpreting pain signals.
For more information about Chronic pain, read the full article at
Wikipedia.
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