Pain and relief refers to the experience of pain and the methods used to reduce or eliminate it. Pain is the body's protective signal of actual or potential tissue damage, an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience that alerts a person to injury or disease and prompts behaviour to avoid harm. It may be acute, ar…
Pain and relief refers to the experience of pain and the methods used to reduce or eliminate it. Pain is the body's protective signal of actual or potential tissue damage, an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience that alerts a person to injury or disease and prompts behaviour to avoid harm. It may be acute, arising suddenly and resolving as an injury heals, or chronic, persisting over long periods and sometimes outlasting any obvious cause. Relief from pain is important both for recovery and for maintaining quality of life and function, and it is achieved through a wide range of approaches. These include medications such as analgesics, anti-inflammatory drugs and opioids; interventional procedures such as nerve blocks and injections; physical and rehabilitative therapies; and non-pharmacological and complementary methods. Effective pain management often combines several of these strategies and is tailored to the type, cause and severity of the pain. Research in the International Journal of Pain Management and related OpenAccessPub titles addresses many of these methods, including high-dose capsaicin patches for chronic low back pain, systems for guiding analgesic dosing through pain-trend analysis, music-induced analgesia through endogenous opioid production, and auricular vagus nerve stimulation for chronic pain. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to pain and its relief.
12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
The 12 articles above have been cited 34 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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