A systematic approach should be used for pain assessment and the SOCRATES acronym can be helpful to remember the key areas to explore (Box 1). As these can indicate serious pathology, all require ...

This self-assessment tests your knowledge after reading the following article: Walker J, Dimcea G (2025) Assessment and management of knee pain: taking a holistic approach. Nursing Times [online], 121 ...

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 ...

The following is a summary of “Health-related quality of life, lifestyle habits and chronic pain in individuals with knee pain – a 2-year follow-up study,” published in the January 2025 issue of Pain ...

I would have been bored, except the pain was so tiring that I could barely function. I spent the days shuffling around the house listening to audiobooks and doing voice-to-text searches for ...

We all use emojis and acronyms to bring some light hearted fun to our text messages – and for the most part it’s harmless fun. But that’s certainly not always the case. The Australian ...

“A Real Pain,” which earned Kieran Culkin a Golden Globe on Sunday night, is available to rent/purchase on all digital platforms. It will become available to stream for Hulu subscribers on Jan. 1 ...

This pain is driving me mad. The phrase comes to mind whenever I catch myself responding angrily or stupidly to some challenge or threat. Who would I be if I didn’t have pain? Would I have acted ...

On Sunday, Kieran Culkin took home the Golden Globe for his performance as Benji Kaplan opposite Jesse Eisenberg in A Real Pain, the film written and directed by Eisenberg about two cousins ...

Jewish American cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji Kaplan (Kieran Culkin) join a tour of Poland to pay respects to their recently departed grandmother, a Holocaust survivor. Soon old ...