National Pain Week is an annual event drawing awareness towards the impact of chronic pain on people’s lives and this year runs from July 26 to August 1st.  Around 3.4 million Australians currently suffer from the condition. More than half ...

New research has found that opioid prescriptions for non-cancer related pain have doubled over the last 24 years. Academics from the University of Sydney, the University of Warwick UK, the University of Notre Dame, the University of New South Wales and ...

A new Australian study has found that people who live with chronic pain experience changes to their brain which can cause negative personality changes. The world first discovery found that people with chronic pain have smaller amounts of glutamate – the brain’s ...

Daily self-management of chronic pain is the key to reducing disability and facilitating return-to-work, but more needs to be done in terms of national policy, health experts say. Research on the topic was published by the Australian Healthcare and Hospital ...