Article: Recordings from electrodes in brain might measure pain.

Article: Now, a way to measure pain!
PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.;  June 7, 2009 ;     499 words ...Now, a way to measure pain! London, Jun 7 (PTI) Well, you may soon feel others' pain, thanks to scientists who have have ... differences between the brains of people in pain and others who are not. "Pain seems ...

Article: Pain is difficult to measure/Pain is ...
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... has thus been used repeatedly in acute pain studies. It is easy to measure and relatively ... relate to the patients' experience of pain and secondary outcomes should include side-effects from the pain or the analgesia. Unfortunately the variability ...

Article: UNM Doctors Discover Way to Measure Pain
AP Online;  March 31, 2005 ;     453 words ... ... chemicals is released by the brain when it senses pain. They say this knowledge could turn what ... patients into an objective science in which pain is measurable. "When there are no physical signs of pain, it's very hard for patients to get any ...

Article: Scientific bid to measure pain.
The Evening Standard (London, England);  September 21, 2005 ;     371 words ... ... are looking for ways of telling how much pain people are really in, rather than relying ... Hospital is studying the mechanisms of pain and the effects of various therapies. They hope to find new ways of measuring pain and BY REBECCA SMITH Health Correspondent ...

Article: ZEVEX Launches Computerized Tracker Algometry Tool; Addition to ...
Business Wire;  June 5, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... for its Tracker(TM) Brand Diagnostic System. This pain tolerance measurement device will be marketed to the ... of tenderness via pressure threshold measurement and pain sensitivity via pain tolerance measurements. "JTech Medical continues ...

Article: Chronic pain is misunderstood, often ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  March 8, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... treating pain is that it's difficult to measure. Pain is subjective. ``There is no pain meter,'' says Kirk Mauro, medical director ... pull, but there is no test to objectively measure pain. This is frustrating for both physicians ...

Article: Study tests reliability of more accurate measure of patient ...
NewsRx Health;  April 12, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... clinical procedures. The ability to accurately measure pain intensity, pain duration and the effect of analgesics is an important ... With this new pain score meter it is possible to measure pain continuously throughout the procedure. In this ...