Somatic pain and visceral pain are two distinct pain types that you'll experience differently. Somatic pain arises in the skin, muscles, and soft tissues, while visceral pain comes from the internal ...

This week we are going to discuss a rather diffuse and difficult differential diagnosis for physicians to consider when evaluating patients for pain. The differences between visceral pain (i.e.

Triptan drugs are commonly prescribed for the treatment of migraine and are presumed to act on a subset of 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors at pain sensory neurons in the brain. However, triptan ...

ALTHOUGH our Puritan ancestors may have thought that pain was a scourge of God to try the soul of man, few modern philosophers would agree with this concept. The attempt to control chronic pain by ...

Mechanical stimulation, including finger pressure on discrete areas of the chest wall and neck, triggered reproducible coughing in about 50% of patients with chronic cough, indicating that chronic ...

This is the third in a series of posts on my book, The Four Realms of Existence. Read parts one and two. Source: Harvard University Press/Used with permission Human beings can be characterized as a ...

This is the third in a series of posts on my book, The Four Realms of Existence. Read parts one and two. Source: ShutterstockAI/Shutterstock Human beings can be ...