The burden of chronic pain. Source: GoodIdeas / Shutterstock Nerve sensitization often contributes to chronic pain states, such as back pain, migraines, and irritable bowel. Sensitization is an ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Central sensitization may be an important underlying factor that complicates the treatment of chronic pain and ...

This first-of-its-kind study by researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine and University of Michigan Medical School explored one potential mechanism – ...

Patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty with preoperatively identified central sensitization may experience reduced postoperative pain and improved quality of recovery without increased risk of ...

Findings suggest that including slowly repeated evoked pain (SREP) in quantitative sensory testing protocols may enhance assessments of altered pain modulation in different pain conditions. Study ...

Scientists have known for a long time that people with opioid use disorder, also called OUD, often also suffer from chronic pain. But they weren’t sure why these two problems are so strongly connected ...

Gabapentin is a gamma-aminobutyric acid derivative, and was approved for the treatment of neuropathic pain by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2002. However, little evidence is available on ...

Scientists have long noted a connection between opioid use disorder (OUD) and chronic pain, however brain mechanisms linking OUD and chronic pain are poorly understood. A new study has explored one ...