Experts highlight “nociplastic pain,” a newly defined pain mechanism changing how chronic pain is understood and treated Many chronic pain patients suffer not from damage, but from a sensitized ...

Three floors below Dmitriy Sheyn’s lab at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, doctors remove degenerated intervertebral discs from patients with severe back pain. Instead of tossing the old discs, however, ...

A study in Science Immunology reveals an immune mechanism influenced by hormones that may explain why chronic pain persists ...

Neuropathic pain in individuals with cancer remains a challenging clinical problem that requires advanced pharmacologic skills and a clear understanding of the molecular mechanisms that drive it. At ...