Preliminary research in youth with chronic pain suggests differences in attention and working memory, which has been similarly demonstrated in adults with chronic pain. Read more.
Chronic pain is a condition in the nervous system where a light switch seemingly got turned on and never got turned off. Patients initially experience pain because of some type of injury that has occurred (i.e. a noxious stimuli). This is nature’s way of helping us protect ourselves from further injury. The pain typically stops once the noxious stimuli has discontinued and enough time has passed for the injury to heal itself. Chronic pain occurs when patients continue to experience pain even though the noxious stimuli has stopped and the injury has healed with time. Read more.
Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital and Fern Health, a provider of digital programs for chronic pain, have expanded their collaboration, giving the company access to 10 million de-identified patient records to help refine and personalize its offerings. Read more.
The long-term goal of this two-phase project is to reduce chronic pain and co-morbid conditions among veterans, through scalable, non-pharmacologic evidence-based strategies that are “veteran-centric,” designed to optimize engagement, adherence and sustainability, and are deliverable to large numbers of veterans. Read more.
A recent study from researchers at CÚRAM, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Medical Devices at NUI Galway, explores the use of optogenetics as a method to relieve chronic pain. Optogenetics uses genetically-encoded proteins that change position and shape in the presence of light to turn brain cells on or off. Read more.
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