General Pain Archives

Recent research highlights dangers of pharmaceutical pain relief

by Q Magnets | Sep 11, 2019 | General Pain, New Research, News

As we reported in our previous article ‘Is current pain medication targeting just the initial pain?'(1), the leader of the research team highlighted the importance of finding alternatives to pharmaceutical pain management as the opioid crisis in the US...

What constitutes severe pain and how do you measure it?

by Q Magnets | May 2, 2019 | General Pain

Plus we list some of the most painful conditions. Measuring pain and levels of pain is a problematic area, and this is reflected in the huge number of different ways that medical professionals attempt to measure pain. A quick check of the Wikipedia entry for...

Discovery of fibromyalgia biomarker offers hope of earlier diagnosis for sufferers 

by Q Magnets | Apr 1, 2019 | Chronic Pain, Fibromyalgia, General Pain, Research

Fibromyalgia literally means ‘fibrous muscle tissue pain’, which is a pretty accurate description of the condition. Also referred to as ‘Fibromyalgia Syndrome’, or by the abbreviations ‘FM’ or ‘FMS’, sufferers experience...

Back pain – a major problem

by Q Magnets | Mar 1, 2019 | Back Pain, Chronic Pain, General Pain

Back pain is incredibly common. In Australia alone around 3 million people have back problems and back pain of one description or another. Given the total population of Australia (around 25 million) that’s over 10% of everyone in the country! This is mirrored in...

Is Current Pain Medication Targeting just the Initial Pain? One Research Team Thinks So

by Q Magnets | Jan 22, 2019 | General Pain, News

Last month a research team at the Harvard Medical School led by Professor Qiufu Ma found that testing of pain medications may have been targeting their effectiveness against only one type of pain – the initial pain reaction – rather than the ongoing pain...

Guidelines for the treatment of osteoarthritis are changing

by Q Magnets | Oct 10, 2018 | General Pain, Knee Pain, News, Osteoarthritis

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners have developed new guidelines for the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee and hip. The statistics were showing that too many hip and knee replacements procedures were not helping patients and many were simply...