Research
Research
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Peripheral Nerve Stimulation for Chronic Pain: What Patients Need to Know
Peripheral nerve stimulation uses mild electrical stimulation to calm injured nerves that continue sending pain signals long after an injury or surgery has healed. For some patients, pain relief may last months—or even longer—after treatment ends.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Trusting Clinical Instincts to Materially Change Lives
Dr. Ian Carroll is revolutionizing headache treatment through CSF leak research
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
