Neuropathic pain, defined as pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system, does not act as a signal to warn the body of damage as acute pain does, and thus it does not have a ...

Identifying patients with chest pain that is of cardiac origin is crucial owing to the high mortality and morbidity of cardiovascular diseases. History, electrocardiogram, and cardiac biomarkers are ...

This tabulated group lists the three best pain drawing criteria (two continuous plus one binary) with the highest power to distinguish somatoform-functional from somatic-nociceptive pain ...