Improving the treatment of pain requires a more nuanced understanding of what it means to feel it. Researchers are investigating biomarkers in brain scans and blood tests.
Pain-o-meter devices are emerging that could bring precision to the question: 'where and how much does it hurt?' This could transform pain management.
Research linking chronic pain to the composition of the gut microbiome raises hopes that manipulating these microbial communities could provide relief for some conditions.
As the opioid crisis looms, there is a strong argument among pain researchers for developing new non-drug strategies to help patients find relief.
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