by University of Bath Credit: CC0 Public DomainWhen you’re an autistic teenager living with chronic pain, getting treatment for your pain can be a challenging experience. That’s according to a group of young people who’ve spoken to Dr. Abbie Jordan of the Department of Psychology and Centre for Pain Research at The University of Bath about...
by University of Michigan Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainMany patients continue to struggle in the wake of the pandemic as they grapple with ongoing symptoms triggered by COVID-19 infection, a condition commonly known as long COVID. However, the onset of symptoms such as brain fog, fatigue, headache, and other types of pain is not unique to COVID...
by Esther Robards-Forbes, University of Texas at Austin TMEM97 gene is expressed in human DRG. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2023). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2306090120A new approach to treating neuropathic pain is making a key step forward thanks to researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.Among the most difficult types of pain to alleviate...
by European Society of Cardiology Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainPeople taking medical cannabis for chronic pain have a slightly increased risk of arrhythmia, according to research published in the European Heart Journal today (Thursday). Arrhythmia is when the heart beats too slowly, too quickly or irregularly. It includes conditions like atrial fibrillation. Recreational use of cannabis has...
Chronic pain can outlast inflammation, the usual driver of pain in the body – a study in mice suggests a vitamin supplement could help relieve it By Grace Wade The mitochondria in certain sensory neurons could be linked to chronic pain nobeastsofierce Science / Alamy A type of vitamin B3, called nicotinamide riboside, alleviates persistent pain...
Jay Croft May 24, 2023 Using surgical implants inside the brain, scientists have recorded for the first time electrical patterns that occur when a person is feeling chronic pain, a new study in Nature Neuroscience concludes. The researchers used the devices on four patients who had felt endless nerve pain for more than a year. The devices recorded several times a...
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY IMAGE: AN ARTISTIC REPRESENTATION OF THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THE NAV1.7 SODIUM ION CHANNEL AND COLLAPSIN RESPONSE MEDIATOR PROTEIN 2 (CRMP2). THE RESEARCHERS IDENTIFIED A UNIQUE REGULATORY SEQUENCE IN NAV1.7 THAT IS REQUIRED FOR NAV1.7 FUNCTION. THEY FOUND THAT THIS PEPTIDE DISRUPTED THE INTERACTION WITH CRMP2 AND REDUCED EXCITABILITY IN SENSORY NEURONS. THE...
Advice by Trisha Pasricha, MD, MPH July 24, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. EDT (Chelsea Conrad/The Washington Post; iStock) Q: I’ve tried a lot of medicines for my chronic pain and nothing works. Should I try acupuncture? A: Critics once dismissed the benefits of acupuncture as purely a placebo effect, a notion that still lingers among a portion...
Manya Singh Updated: June 13, 2023 2:58 pm IST Stretching is a great way to reduce chronic pain, especially pain in the back and neck Exercising has been found to be a very effective way of reducing chronic pain. Chronic pain is the type of pain that persists for more than three months. Chronic pain...
by National Institutes of Health Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For the first time, researchers have recorded pain-related data from inside the brain of individuals with chronic pain disorders caused by stroke or amputation (phantom limb pain). A long sought-after goal has been to understand how pain is represented by brain activity and how to modulate that activity to...
