Susanne Morton has spent more than two decades studying motor learning. Morton is an associate professor in the Department of Physical Therapy (PT) at the University of Delaware’s College of Health ...

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Adults self-report their pain on a one to 10 numerical score, while children can point to an equivalent face scale - from a green smiling face to a red crying face - to indicate their pain. Newborns, ...

Learning how to regulate negative emotions like anxiety could ease chronic pain. Scientists have found that a form of therapy that partly focuses on tolerating distress relieved ongoing discomfort ...

People can learn from pain, perhaps more from other people’s than from their own. Yet knowing what other people feel depends on their ability to describe their suffering in words. Pain’s defiance of ...

One of the most common surgical complications is postoperative pain that persists long after the surgical incision has healed, striking anywhere between 10% to 35% of the estimated 300 million people ...