Selects: Pain Scales: Yeeeow!

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By the 1990s, cigarette makers had been hooking and killing off their customers for about a century. And they’d gotten good at both as well as covering up their harms. In 1994 they were still denying cigarettes were addictive. Then, the 50 Attorneys General of the US rode into to ...  Show more

Stanford neuroscientist Sean Mackey, MD, PhD reveals pain is highly subjective, shaped by our beliefs and experiences - not just injury signals. He unpacks chronic pain's persistence, promising treatment strategies like brief behavioral therapies, and research toward personali ...

Physical pain can be debilitating. Today, Kessonga breaks down different degrees of pain, and how mindfulness can help us feel better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

Pain has long been recognised as something of an enigma by scientists and clinicians. It's both a measurable physiological process, as well as deeply personal and subjective. Claudia Hammond meets scientists attending the British Neuroscience Association's Christmas symposium on ...  Show more

"Pain is whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever they say it does." - Margo McCaffrey. The use of binaural beats to treat pain, particularly chronic (or longstanding) pain, has been documented in the literature. The recording I have created for you today us ...  Show more