Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. It serves a protective function by signalling injury, but when it becomes chronic it can persist beyond its useful purpose and significantly impair quality of life. Pain perception involves neurobiological signa…
Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. It serves a protective function by signalling injury, but when it becomes chronic it can persist beyond its useful purpose and significantly impair quality of life. Pain perception involves neurobiological signalling pathways as well as psychological and emotional dimensions, and its assessment and relief are central to Palliative Care And Hospice practice, where comfort and quality of life are primary goals. Within the journal's scope on Palliative Care And Hospice, research has examined the experience and treatment of pain, including chronic pain after lung transplantation, the treatment of chronic low back pain with high-dose capsaicin patches, auricular vagus nerve stimulation for chronic pain and pain-related cytokines, music-induced analgesia through endogenous opioid production, and combined therapy for depressed cancer patients with pain. Further work addresses pain management after surgery and the relationship between chronic pain and psychological distress. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to pain, supporting palliative-care clinicians, pain specialists, and students interested in the mechanisms, assessment, and management of acute and chronic pain.
12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
The 12 articles above have been cited 30 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Pain, linking to each citing work.