Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Pain

Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, serving as a protective signal but, when persistent, becoming a disabling condition in its own right. It is classified by mechanism and duration into acute, chronic, nociceptive, neuropathic, and cancer-related …

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 30× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2694-1201 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, serving as a protective signal but, when persistent, becoming a disabling condition in its own right. It is classified by mechanism and duration into acute, chronic, nociceptive, neuropathic, and cancer-related pain, and it is processed through peripheral nociceptors, spinal pathways, and central modulation involving endogenous opioid and other systems. Effective pain care is interdisciplinary, integrating pharmacotherapy, interventional procedures, physical and psychological approaches, and attention to the patient's broader functioning and quality of life. Research in this area examines chronic pain after lung transplantation, high-dose capsaicin patches for low back pain, auricular and other vagus nerve stimulation and its effect on pain-related cytokines, and music-induced analgesia through endogenous opioid production. Studies also address interventional techniques such as sacral injection, novel agents including gonyautoxins after knee arthroplasty, musculoskeletal pain in specific populations, the psychosomatic dimensions of pain, the treatment of pain in depressed cancer patients, and clinical decision support integrating analgesic dosing with pain-trend analysis. Methods span clinical trials, case reports, narrative reviews, and cross-sectional studies. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research on the mechanisms, assessment, and treatment of acute and chronic pain.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2020

Pain between Psyche and Soma in Uro-Andrology

Pruneti CarloCorresponding author
Dept. of Medicine and Surgery, Clinical Psychology, Clinical Psychophysiology and Clinical Neuropsychology Labs., University of Parma, Italy.
Exact topic International Journal of Pain Management Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2688-5328.ijp-20-3386

How this research is being cited

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.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Spine and Neuroscience (ISSN 2694-1201).

Journal editorial board
Barbara Poletti · Italy Ian James Martins · Australia Domenico Chirchiglia · Italy

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