All generalist and specialist clinicians are likely to encounter torture survivors among
refugees and asylum seekers. A minority of people survive torture and a smaller minority …

Methods: A narrative review of assessment and treatment studies, informed by clinical
experience, was undertaken. Results: The clinical presentation in survivors of torture shares …

Torture is understood by international law (there are several definitions) as the intentional
infliction of severe mental or physical pain or suffering by or with the consent of the state …

Torture and the conditions under which it is inflicted often leave persistent painful disorders.
Because there may be no lasting signs, persistent pain is often misconceived as a somatic …

Torture is widely practiced throughout the world. Recent studies indicate that 50% of all
countries, including 79% of the G-20 countries, continue to practice systematic torture …

Pain care for survivors of torture and of war shows similarities and marked differences. For
both, pain can be complex with unfamiliar presentations and the pains hard to assign to …

CONTEXT: Refugee survivors of torture in the United Kingdom have multiple problems, of
which pain may be underrecognized, given the high prevalence recorded in similar …

Aim. To estimate change over 10 years concerning the prevalence of pain in the head, back
and feet, among previously tortured refugees settled in Denmark, and to compare …

The World Health Organization has declared the ex-isting refugee migration an international
humanitarian disaster, considering it the worst humanitarian crisis since the Second World …

Background An estimated 87% of torture survivors experience chronic pain such as brachial
plexopathy from upper extremity suspension or lumbosacral plexus injury from leg …