by Alex Smith, Kcur Lori Pinkley, a 50-year-old from Kansas City, Mo., has struggled with puzzling chronic pain since she was 15. She has had countless disappointing visits with doctors. Some said they couldn’t help her. Others diagnosed her with everything from fibromyalgia to lipedema to the rare Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Pinkley has taken opioids a...
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Pain signalling in humans more rapid than previously known
Pain signals can travel as fast as touch signals, according to a new study led by researchers from Linköping University. The discovery of a rapid pain-signalling system challenges our current understanding of pain. The study has been published in the scientific journal Science Advances. It has until now been believed that nerve signals for pain are always conducted more slowly than those for touch. The latter...
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Discovery of ‘mini-brains’ could change understanding of pain medication
The human body’s peripheral nervous system could be capable of interpreting its environment and modulating pain, neuroscientists have established, after successfully studying how rodents reacted to stimulation. Until now, accepted scientific theory has held that only the central nervous system – the brain and spinal cord – could actually interpret and analyse sensations like pain or heat....