Improper pain management can lead to severe physical or mental consequences, including
suffering, and an increased risk of opioid dependency. Assessing the presence and severity …

Cancer patients experience high rates of chronic pain throughout the treatment process.
Assessing pain for this patient population is a vital component of psychological and …

Chronic pain-related sickness absence is an enormous socioeconomic burden globally.
Optimized interventions are reliant on a lucid understanding of the distribution of social …

In patients presenting with low back pain (LBP), once specific causes are excluded (fracture,
infection, inflammatory arthritis, cancer, cauda equina and radiculopathy) many clinicians …

Pain is a dynamic, complex and multidimensional experience. The identification of pain from
brain activity as neural readout may effectively provide a neural code for pain, and further …

Objective: The aim of this review is to identify gaps and provide a direction for future
research in the utilization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in chronic pain (CP) management …

Background: Effective communication is the bedrock of quality health care, but it continues to
be a major problem for patients, family caregivers, health care providers, and organizations …

Objective. Somatic symptom disorder (SSD) is a reflection of medically unexplained physical
symptoms that lead to distress and impairment in social and occupational functioning. SSD …

Introduction Pain that arises spontaneously is considered more clinically relevant than pain
evoked by external stimuli. However, measuring spontaneous pain in animal models in …

Data from 255 Thais with chronic pain were collected at Chiang Mai Medical School
Hospital. After the patients self-rated their level of pain, a smartphone camera was used to …