Clinical information was collected from the clinical records, including age, gender, disease duration, affected side, spine level, preoperative VAS scores, VAS scores after nerve block, duration of ...

In a new study, Black patients undergoing breast reconstruction (BR) were significantly less likely to receive PNBs for pain control. These findings raise concerns that existing racial disparities ...

Nerve pain isn’t something most athletes talk about openly. Yet, for countless runners, lifters, cyclists, and weekend warriors, the discomfort is very real—and it doesn’t go away with ...

The peripheral sensation of pain travels to the brain in a relay involving nerve cells, or neurons, centered in four different regions of the ascending sensory pathway: the dorsal root ganglion, ...

JON HAMILTON, BYLINE: Pain signals often start on the body's surface. Then, says Dr. Sergiu Pasca of Stanford University, they make a long journey. SERGIU PASCA: Nerve terminals in the skin send ...

NPR's Jon Hamilton reports. JON HAMILTON, BYLINE: Pain signals often start on the body's surface. Then, says Dr. Sergiu Pasca of Stanford University, they make a long journey. SERGIU PASCA: Nerve ...