Do you wince as you walk, or wake up with aches and pains? It could be down to your genes – your Neanderthal genes, that is. Many of us are part Neanderthal, with our genes carrying traces of past ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pressure pain threshold may be a novel biomarker for identification of high risk for self-harm among adolescents ...

A cross-sectional study found that static pain measures could be useful for predicting fatigue severity in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). “Pain experiences are reported by over a quarter of ...

July 23 (UPI) --A new genomic analysis suggests Neanderthals may have had a lower threshold for pain. Scientists found some modern humans -- mostly in central and south America, but also in Europe -- ...

To the long list of the benefits of physical activity, researchers have just added one more thing: a greater ability to handle pain. A recent study published in the journal PLOS One found that regular ...

Despite recent advances in anti-inflammatory therapy, many rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients continue to suffer from pain. Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal, Arthritis ...

Regular exercise may boost pain tolerance — a new finding that may have implications for those experiencing chronic pain, new research suggests. In a large observational study of more than 10,000 ...

"Some guys have a good pain threshold, and some don't" - Larry Bird on playing through pain until his body gave out in 1988 originally appeared on Basketball Network. Larry Bird gave his everything ...

Women who don’t need an epidural during childbirth might be carriers of a rare genetic variant that gives them a much higher threshold for pain, scientists have discovered. Only about one in 100 women ...