Negative expectancies about pain and aging independently predicted 10-year worsening of pain severity and interference in older adults.

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a rare clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

Chronic pain, defined as pain that persists for more than 3 months, is a major global health problem and affects as many as 100 million adults in the United States alone. Besides the suffering, ...

Some people develop knee pain after hip replacement surgery. Causes include pre-existing knee problems, referred pain, and irritation to muscles and tendons during surgery. Experiencing knee pain ...

Across both mice and humans, we found that males tended to recover from pain more quickly than females. The reason appears to lie in how monocytes behave after injury. In males, these immune cells ...

Experts generally define atypical chest pain as any pain that does not have the same characteristics as typical chest pain. Typical chest pain presents as follows: A person will have chest discomfort ...

Men and women don’t experience pain the same way. Give someone an electric shock; bind a tourniquet tighter and tighter around their leg; submerge their hand in icy water; prick them with a pin: ...