When you strain your back or burn your arm, receptor cells send messages along your nerve pathways to your brain. This results in a feeling of pain, a signal from your body that you must tend to it; ...

Dr. Adriaan Louw has heard the term "pain revolution" before. The physical therapist and scientist has been researching chronic pain for more than 30 years. Over the decades, he has witnessed the rise ...

Experts today are focusing on nerves and how the brain works instead of just looking at injured parts when studying pain science. It’s possible to manage stubborn aches by learning what’s causing them ...

Chemotherapy has long forced patients to choose between fighting their cancer and living with nerve pain that can linger for years after treatment ends. Now a wave of basic science and early clinical ...