Understanding the plasticity of pain and analgesia exhibited in different pain states may
improve therapies for the two major types of pain, neuropathic and inflammatory pain, in …

Chronic pain is a common condition for which patients seek care from various health-care
providers. This type of pain causes much suffering and disability and is frequently mistreated …

Chronic pain exerts an enormous personal and economic burden, affecting more than 30%
of people worldwide according to some studies. Unlike acute pain, which carries survival …

The term osteoarthritis describes a common, age-related, heterogeneous group of disorders
characterised pathologically by focal areas of loss of articular cartilage in synovial joints …

Most practitioners would regard dyspepsia as a combination of symptoms, often related to
eating, including epigastric discomfort and pain, bloating, indigestion, belching and a feeling …

Delay or failure of healing of surgical wounds, usually a result of infection, is arguably the
commonest cause of postoperative morbidity, long hospital stays, and increased costs. 9 …

Two books have directed attention to the underpinnings of doctors' thinking. 1, 2 Thinking
(cognitive) failures abound in clinical decision making, especially in diagnostic formulation …

Keele described 'a simple method of minimizing errors of description by standardizing
terminology, and recording intensity of pain in a pain chart'. His work was inspired by Sir …

Management of acute postoperative pain is one of the few clinical topics for which the
International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) created guidelines [11]. IASP is one of …