All over the body are tiny sensors called nociceptors whose job is to spot potentially harmful stimuli and send warning ...

Chinese researchers have built a self-healing gelatin sensor that lets robots rate pain and protect themselves after damage.

Quivering on a vibration plate—a wobbly board that shimmies your whole body when you stand on it—is 2025’s answer to the Shake Weight of the early aughts (minus the sexy innuendo). Instead of ...

One of the most common surgical complications is postoperative pain that persists long after the surgical incision has healed, striking anywhere between 10% to 35% of the estimated 300 million people ...

Attempt to obtain the patient's self-report, the single most reliable indicator of pain. Do not assume that a patient cannot report pain; many cognitively impaired patients are able to use a ...

As much as we’d like to tell you that pain is just the French word for bread, we know that chronic pain conditions are nothing to joke about. From slipped discs to autoimmune diseases which cause ...

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