Hyperalgesia is an enhanced pain response. It can result from either injury to part of the body or from use of opioid painkillers. When a person becomes more sensitive to pain as a result of taking ...

‌Hyperalgesia is when you have extreme sensitivity to pain. If you have this condition, your body overreacts to painful stimuli, making you feel increased pain. You can develop hyperalgesia if you use ...

Hyperalgesia is a condition where a person has an increased sensitivity and extreme response to pain. What may not hurt most people can cause severe pain in a person with hyperalgesia. Although there ...

Fort Lauderdale, Florida — Researchers might have found an answer to the puzzling and sometimes controversial problem of opioid-induced hyperalgesia (OIH). A new study shows that dexmedetomidine, a ...

February 5, 2010 (San Antonio, Texas) — Stimulation of the spinal cord is effective in treating secondary hyperalgesia and is worthy of further study, researchers reported here at the American Academy ...

Morphine and other opioids are vital to treat severe and chronic pain. However, they have two problems - prolonged use creates morphine tolerance, where ever-increasing doses are needed for the same ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A motorcycle accident leaves you with a ...

When patients arrive in the emergency room, nearly all but those with the most minor complaints get an IV. To draw blood, give medications or administer fluids, the IV is the way doctors and nurses ...

Sensitization of pain pathways in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord leads to the emergence of hyperalgesia. Bonin and De Koninck now show that reactivation of sensitized pain pathways in mice with ...

Efficacy and tolerability of oxycodone for oxaliplatin-induced peripheral neuropathy and the extension of folfox therapy in colorectal cancer patients. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2014 ...