Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pressure pain threshold may be a novel biomarker for identification of high risk for self-harm among adolescents ...

A cross-sectional study found that static pain measures could be useful for predicting fatigue severity in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). “Pain experiences are reported by over a quarter of ...

Do you wince as you walk, or wake up with aches and pains? It could be down to your genes – your Neanderthal genes, that is. Many of us are part Neanderthal, with our genes carrying traces of past ...

Despite recent advances in anti-inflammatory therapy, many rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients continue to suffer from pain. Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal, Arthritis ...

July 23 (UPI) --A new genomic analysis suggests Neanderthals may have had a lower threshold for pain. Scientists found some modern humans -- mostly in central and south America, but also in Europe -- ...

Women who don’t need an epidural during childbirth might be carriers of a rare genetic variant that gives them a much higher threshold for pain, scientists have discovered. Only about one in 100 women ...

The base of the big toe is the weakest part, and the heel is the area that holds the most pressure. Around the age of 65 there is a turning point with respect to pain tolerance in the sole of the foot ...

Alcohol's ability to increase people's pain threshold is one reason that drinking also leads to more aggressive behavior, a new study suggests. Researchers found that the less pain that study ...

You may have seen rowing before, but I guarantee you that you know little about the sport unless you went to university at Cambridge or Oxford. There you will find a subspecies of human known as the ...

Tattoo pain will vary depending on your age, sex, and pain threshold. The most painful spots to get a tattoo are your ribs, spine, fingers, and shins. The least painful spots to get a tattoo are your ...

They may be ginger — but their skin isn’t. In a seemingly paradoxical study, US researchers found that redheads have a preternaturally high pain tolerance — wait for it — due to a mechanism that ups ...