Pain medication plays an important role in the treatment of acute and chronic pain
conditions, but some drugs, opioids in particular, have been overprescribed or prescribed …

Over the past decade there has been an increasing reliance on strong opioids to treat acute
and chronic pain, which has been associated with a rising epidemic of prescription opioid …

Chronic pain syndromes are often refractory to treatment and cause substantial suffering
and disability. Pain severity is often measured through subjective report, while objective …

Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential
tissue damage. Chronic pain, with a prevalence of 20–30% is the major cause of human …

Chronic, pathological pain remains a global health problem and a challenge to basic and
clinical sciences. A major obstacle to preventing, treating, or reverting chronic pain has been …

The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is not only important in executive functions, but also pain
processing. The latter is dependent on its connections to other areas of the cerebral …

This review synthesizes relations between mindfulness and resting-state fMRI functional
connectivity of brain networks. Mindfulness is characterized by present-moment awareness …

Chronic pain, as a stress state, is one of the critical factors for determining depression, and
their coexistence tends to further aggravate the severity of both disorders. Unfortunately …

Objective: To compare targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) to “standard treatment” of
neuroma excision and burying into muscle for postamputation pain. Summary Background …

Chronic pain is a condition in which pain progresses from an acute to chronic state and
persists beyond the healing process. Chronic pain impairs function and decreases patients' …