Understanding Anesthesia and Common Side Effects
Medications that prevent pain can cause side effects, but your surgical team is prepared to handle them.
Category: Pain
Building a Better Opioid
Opioid crisis no more? It may be possible one day thanks to new research from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
Addiction, Innovation, Pain, Pharmacology, Physicians, Research
Fearing pain and avoiding activities contribute to disability and c...
New research from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine suggests that fear avoidance contributes to disability and pain in children with Functional Abdominal Pain (FAP) but not Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).
Chronic neck pain common among car crash victims, but most don̵...
A UNC-led study finds chronic pain to be common among people involved in car accidents. However, most people in the study who reported persistent neck pain were not engaged in litigation six weeks after their accident.
Persistent pain after stressful events may have a neurobiological b...
A new study led by University of North Carolina School of Medicine researchers is the first to identify a genetic risk factor for persistent pain after traumatic events such as motor vehicle collision and sexual assault.
Pain relief with PAP injections may last 100 times longer than a tr...
UNC researchers describe how exploiting the molecular mechanism behind acupuncture resulted in six-day pain relief in animal models. They call this new therapeutic approach PAPupuncture.
More African Americans burdened by osteoarthritis in multiple large...
African Americans were also more likely to have knee osteoarthritis, but less likely to be affected by hand osteoarthritis than Caucasians, according to new findings from UNC's long-running Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project.
Can a short leg cause knee or hip pain?
If one of your legs is shorter than the other, that may increase your risk of pain in your knees or hips, some researchers suspect. UNC’s Yvonne Golightly, PT, PhD, explains what researchers do and don’t know about this surprisingly common condition.