In this post, I’m going to describe a short and easy practice that can help ease physical pain and other unpleasant experiences, from other types of physical discomfort to mental discomfort, such as ...

After a series of questions, the doctor leans in and asks, “Does your pain buzz?” I answer, “No.” I answer no because, unfortunately, I am not a bee, nor does the 15 minutes of our time together allow ...

Research findings showed the pool of 84 pain descriptors from the McGill Pain Questionnaire can be condensed into a subset of 36 descriptors that fit into 12 categories to describe chronic pain, ...

Pain comes from the communication between your nerves, spinal cord, and brain. Depending on the underlying cause, your pain may be acute, chronic, neuropathic, or nociceptive, which is divided into ...

While experiencing physical pain from time to time is part of life, chronic pain is something entirely different. With chronic pain, pain signals keep firing in the nervous system for weeks, months, ...

As medical conditions go, "neuropathy" might sound rather innocuous. Call it by its household name -- nerve pain -- and its true nature becomes more apparent. But only by asking sufferers to describe ...

Dull pain can occur anywhere on the body. This steady and typically bearable type of pain has many different causes. Dull pain is the kind of pain that feels more like a deep ache, pressure, or ...

For the first time, an international collaboration of researchers have succeeded in creating a complete overview of all pain conditions in the face, mouth and jaw and classifying them in the same way.