10+ Best Articles on Pain

The best way to divorce pain from suffering is to give yourself space to talk about your pain.

We've all felt it -- and it's not much fun. What are the best ways to overcome pain? Here's what the research has to say...

«The Pain Management Workbook”, “When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery”, “The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World”, and “The Psychology of Pain.”»

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«Many times when you’re angry, you focus on what someone else did that was wrong, which essentially gives away your power. When you focus on what you could have done better, you often feel empowered and less bitter.»

The ability to empathize, or share the pain of others is mapped onto neurons in the insula, a new study reports.

Without meds, my back and hip are, to my surprise and delight, nearly pain-free

Chronic pain is often thought to be caused by inflammation. A provocative new paper suggests inflammation could actually prevent it.

«But a provocative new paper published to Science Translational Medicine suggests that reducing inflammation in the short-term could actually stifle healing, resulting in chronic pain over the long-term.»

In 2013, a fire-sprinkler engineer fell five stories from the rafters of a church, shattered 108 bones, and almost died. Then began his battle to walk and live again.

The painful feelings you avoid grow twisted in the dark. By facing your sorrows and struggles you can take back your life

«I slowly discovered something important: the more we try to evade or avoid painful realities, the more entangled we become in the tentacles of their embrace.»

Medical science can only tell us so much. To understand pain, we need the cultural tools of history, philosophy and art

Does hurting make us human?

Brain imaging is illuminating the neural patterns behind pain’s infinite variety.