Almost everyone will deal with back pain at some point in their lives. Most recover quickly—but for about 20% of people, ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden might have found an explanation for why people with self-injury behaviour generally feel less pain than others. The key seems to be a more effective pain ...

Pain, a widespread challenge affecting daily life, is closely linked with psychological and social factors. While pain clearly influences daily function in those affected, the complete extent of its ...

Orthopaedic Research UKWritten by Keynote Contributor, Professor Mike Hurley. Worldwide chronic knee, hip and back pain are the commonest causes of pain. It impairs people’s mobility, physical, mental ...

If you self-harm, these strategies may help to reduce the urge or find safer ways to address these urges. Support is available. You’re not alone. When painful or difficult emotions overwhelm you, you ...

If your back is killing you at the end of the day, you might blame it on picking something up incorrectly or somehow injuring it. But up to 25% of lower back problems aren’t actually caused by muscle ...

Psychopathic traits and antisocial behavior show a well-documented relationship with decreased empathic processing. It has been proposed that a reduced own experience of pain leads to perceiving ...

If you think exceptional self-discipline is all about suffering and denial, I have some interesting research for you.

Self-inflicted injury is the act of intentionally harming one’s own body without meaning for the injury to be fatal. People who engage in self-inflicted injury typically do so in an attempt to cope ...