Some types of pain affect cognitive ability, including number sense, and yet some tools to assess pain use numerical scales. A recent study sought to determine if number sense is altered in patients ...

Dr. Kurt Kroenke spent the early part of his career working as a physician in Army teaching hospitals and has long had an interest in physical and psychological symptoms. He retired as a U.S. Army ...

"It's really sore," my (Josh's) five-year-old daughter said, cradling her broken arm in the emergency department. "But on a ...

The following is an installment of the "Try This" series published by the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing. The content is intended to encourage nurses to understand the ...

Pain is hard to measure. One person’s “ouch” is another’s agony. Now, scientists say they’ve found a better way of assessing pain: putting a price on it. By translating pain into dollars, they’ve ...

The Defense Department has a new tool to help military health care providers tackle one of the most complex challenges facing patients: pain. The DoD has launched a new pain rating scale that bears ...

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A newly-published Cochrane review reveals significant gaps in the clinical rating scales used to assess pain in newborn babies, highlighting the urgent need for improved tools and global collaboration ...

HONOLULU -- (Sept. 19, 2018) September is Pain Awareness Month, which enables people to contemplate pain, their pain, and how they may communicate their pain. Patients are used to answering a health ...

Joshua Pate has received speaker fees for presentations on pain and physiotherapy. He receives royalties for children's books. Dale Langford has received honoraria and research support from the ...