Pain is a neuro-psychological experience meant to be a wake-up call to a wound or trauma. Pain can be emotional (grief, anger), or it can be physical (an injury or disease in the body tissues).

Pain on the outer side of your foot can range from annoying to debilitating. When the stabbing, burning, or aching is severe, it can limit your ability to stand, walk, exercise, work, or engage in ...

Hyperesthesia isn’t a disease. It’s a symptom. It means your body is hypersensitive to things that wouldn’t bother most people. Simple sensations such as touch, sound, light, taste, or temperature can ...

A receptor that is responsible for our sense of touch and temperature, and which researchers have now found to be present in our colon, could provide a target for treating chronic pain associated with ...

Most people think about pain as a simple cause-and-effect process. For example, if you touch a hot stove, you probably assume that the nerves in the skin feel how hot the stove is and signals are sent ...