Research
Research
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Can TMS Therapy Reduce Chronic Pain? What the Science Says
The brain’s role in chronic pain is clear. Now, pain scientists are testing ways to change it.
June 18, 2025
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Ketamine for Chronic Pain: What to Know Before Starting Treatment
Dr. Theresa Lii’s research investigates how ketamine can help reset pain pathways
June 18, 2025
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Understanding Facial Pain: Causes, Diagnoses, and Hope for Relief
When facial pain doesn’t have an easy answer, our experts look deeper
June 18, 2025
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Stanford researchers identify “zombie-like” pain-sensing neurons that link pain and aging, published in Nature Neuroscience
Study finds that a subset of neurons in the peripheral nervous system drive pain with injury and age, offering a potential new target for drug development
May 14, 2025
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Pelvic Pain in Women: Misunderstood and Underreported, but For How Long?
Dr. Kristen MacKenzie discusses the challenges women face in getting proper care and the growing movement toward more compassionate, informed treatment
January 22, 2025
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Trusting Clinical Instincts to Materially Change Lives
Dr. Ian Carroll is revolutionizing headache treatment through CSF leak research
December 16, 2024
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Brain and spinal cord imaging: new hope for the future?
Postdoctoral Scholar Dario Pfyffer’s research investigates a new path to prognosis for spinal cord injuries
October 09, 2024
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Pioneering Study Reveals Injury-Spared Spinal Cord Tissue Bridges as Powerful Predictors of Recovery in Cervical Spinal Cord Injury
Multicentric study findings featuring potential to change clinical practice and inform interventional spinal cord injury trials
July 01, 2024
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Stanford Pain Scientist explores new frontiers in pain research
Dr. Vafi Salmasi wants to take clinical trials beyond the lab and into the real world
May 31, 2024
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Stanford Pain Faculty/AAPM Members Co-Author Breakthrough Feasibility Study Published in Anesthesia and Analgesia
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery: New study suggests a single-session, digital pain management treatment provides lasting analgesia after orthopedic trauma surgery
June 13, 2022
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April 02, 2021
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February 27, 2021
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Creating a new tool for pain: The CHOIR body map puts pain on the map
A new electronic self-report body map is an innovative tool for precision health.
January 31, 2021
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June 19, 2020
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May 11, 2020