Studies have shown that these efforts are undermined by biases that have led the medical community to consistently ...

Healthcare professionals must think deeply about pain and its consequences and provide pain assessment and management services in a just manner. The International Association for the Study of Pain ...

Purpose: To examine the issue of pain assessment in infants by acquiring all available published pain assessment tools and evaluating their reported reliability, validity, clinical utility ...

While seemingly straightforward, rating pain on a scale of 0 to 10 is more complex than it appears, influenced by factors ...

A tool that was once used to examine the intensity and frequency of pain in dementia patients following their death has been revamped.

In this systematic review, evidence for the efficacy of acute pain interventions on individuals with opioid use disorder was ...

Wolfe F and Michaud K (2007) Assessment of pain in rheumatoid arthritis: minimal clinically significant difference, predictors, and the effect of anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy. J Rheumatol 34 ...

It helps people with disabling knee pain and extreme cartilage deterioration, but it doesn't last forever. Cartilage restoration is an option for some. Is There a Link Between Chronic Knee Pain ...

This is where a dog pain scale — a tool to assess how much pain your dog is in — may come in handy. However, canine pain scales can be difficult to use without professional help, so proper ...

Patients with chronic postoperative pain exhibited a higher risk for dementia compared with those without chronic postoperative pain.