A bedside chart used to record patient pain levels can help reduce pain among cancer patients without increasing opioid use, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Patients with cancer could benefit from a simple bedside system to manage their pain, a study suggests. The new approach reduces pain levels compared with conventional care, the research with ...

To get good control of your chronic pain, it's not enough to tell your doctor it hurts. You need to learn how to talk about pain: how it feels, how it rates on a pain scale, and how it affects you.

A pain scale is a tool that doctors use to help assess a person’s pain. Here are the different types and how they’re used.

The pain levels during rescripting were significantly below their basal levels, with 49% reporting no pain at all while viewing a rescripted image. These changes were not a function of image ...

Patients frequently seek medical attention because of pain. Pain relief is a major motivation for the provider visit but getting a diagnosis and some reassurance about the painful condition is the ...

How do pain levels compare between males and females? This study examines pain level differences between genders both before and after therapy for musculoskeletal pain.

The analysis of this study revealed that pain tolerance was strongly associated with friendships, i.e. friends tend to have similar pain tolerance levels. Further analysis based on gender revealed ...

The new approach reduces pain levels compared with conventional care, the research with patients shows. Pain affects half of all people with cancer and an estimated 80 per cent of those with ...