Background: In 2016, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia released a legally enforceable opioid prescribing practice standard for the treatment of chronic noncancer pain (CNCP); ...

A nationally representative U.S. study of over 100,000 adults found that post-COVID conditions (PCCs) significantly reduce ...

A study conducted at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil investigated the process of muscle pain ...

Despite medical advances and health scares, thousands of U.S. doctors continue to prescribe opioids to treat pain, keeping ...

Recent scientific endeavours have begun to unravel the intricate molecular and cellular processes that underlie the transition from acute to chronic pain states. This involves a dense interaction ...

I asked Lauren Heathcote, the King’s College London researcher, to explain the difference between how the brain processes acute versus chronic pain. LAUREN HEATHCOTE: I think a helpful but quite rough ...

Nonbenzodiazepine muscle relaxants for acute low back pain may provide short-term improvements in pain, muscle spasms, and physical outcomes; however, cautious prescribing is advised due to higher ...

Now, Jefferson Moss-Magee Rehabilitation in Philadelphia has an additional therapy that’s helping patients deal with the pain and anxiety. The therapy’s called Music and Mindfulness ...

The novel oral small molecule nonopioid suzetrigine was effective and well tolerated among patients with moderate to severe acute surgical and nonsurgical pain. Treatment of moderate to severe ...