When you come back from an injury or surgery, you have a few options: resting the area, avoiding movements that cause pain or taking certain medications to ease discomfort. But what happens when ...

When pain strikes from multiple sources-such as a paper cut followed by contact with hot water-the experience can feel ...

Petzschner: SOMA is a pain management tool developed at Brown’s Carney Institute for Brain Science that focuses on tracking your pain levels. We don’t just track intensity, which is important ...

A jolt of pain shoots through the paper cut and you gasp, not because you've just learned that the butler did it, but because the teeny-tiny cut hurts so badly. Why are paper cuts so painful?

That’s why we — Raj Punjabi and Noah Michelson, hosts of HuffPost’s “Am I Doing It Wrong?” podcast — asked Dr. Darryl Brown, a pain management and anesthesiology specialist at Mount Sinai Hospital in ...

Researchers are looking more and more at reducing or eliminating pain without the use of opioids. Combining over-the-counter pain medications, like ibuprofen and acetaminophen is one way. Still ...

Chronic knee pain is just a matter of time for many adults. With tips from a treatment expert, however, you might be able to soothe the pain — or even prevent it. Dr. Angie Brown is a clinical ...

If you’re in pain and you’re looking for relief in the form of an over-the-counter drug, you’ve got a slew of options. There’s acetaminophen, or Tylenol. There’s ibuprofen, which is used ...