Source: Arpit/Pixabay Pain can be hard to understand…and to even describe. According to Straub (2023), “Few topics in health psychology are as elusive as pain.” Pain is the primary reason that people ...

A major Australian trial has found that cognitive functional therapy (CFT) can significantly reduce disability and pain in people with chronic low back pain for at least three years. The approach ...

This is a first post in a 2-part series. How might non-pharmacological approaches, such as positive psychology, offer tangible hope for those who experience chronic pain? My research team has been ...

Joe Laurence, a firefighter in Western Australia, was pulling a hose over a fence when he felt a sharp pain shoot down his back. “It was pretty horrific at the time,” said Laurence, then 27. “From ...

Pain is our body’s way of telling us that something is wrong. When it’s acute, it tends to start suddenly, with an obvious cause (like a broken bone) and a standard fix. But chronic pain, experienced ...

Men and women don’t experience pain the same way. Give someone an electric shock; bind a tourniquet tighter and tighter around their leg; submerge their hand in icy water; prick them with a pin: ...