[HTML][HTML] Sex, gender, and pain: a review of recent clinical and experimental findings

RB Fillingim, CD King, MC Ribeiro-Dasilva… - The journal of pain, 2009 - Elsevier
Sex-related influences on pain and analgesia have become a topic of tremendous scientific
and clinical interest, especially in the last 10 to 15 years. Members of our research group …

Sex, gender, and pain: an overview of a complex field

RW Hurley, MCB Adams - Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2008 - journals.lww.com
Traditionally, biomedical research in the field of pain has been conducted with male animals
and subjects. Over the past 20–30 yr, it has been increasingly recognized that this narrow …

Menstrual migraine is caused by estrogen withdrawal: revisiting the evidence

B Raffaelli, TP Do, BA Chaudhry, M Ashina… - The journal of headache …, 2023 - Springer
Objective To explore and critically appraise the evidence supporting the role of estrogen
withdrawal in menstrual migraine. Main body Menstrual migraine, impacting about 6% of …

A systematic review of race, sex, and socioeconomic status differences in postoperative pain and pain management

KL Thurston, SJ Zhang, BA Wilbanks, R Billings… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose Optimal postoperative pain management remains a significant problem despite the
availability of multiple preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative pain management …

Inventory of personal factors influencing conditioned pain modulation in healthy people: a systematic literature review

L Hermans, J Van Oosterwijck, D Goubert… - Pain …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Background Conditioned pain modulation (CPM) is believed to play an important role in the
development and exacerbation of chronic pain, because dysfunction of CPM is associated …

Estrogenic influences in pain processing

Å Amandusson, A Blomqvist - Frontiers in neuroendocrinology, 2013 - Elsevier
Gonadal hormones not only play a pivotal role in reproductive behavior and sexual
differentiation, they also contribute to thermoregulation, feeding, memory, neuronal survival …

Do fluctuations in ovarian hormones affect gastrointestinal symptoms in women with irritable bowel syndrome?

MM Heitkemper, L Chang - Gender medicine, 2009 - Elsevier
Background: An increase in gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms, including bowel discomfort,
abdominal pain/discomfort, bloating, and alterations in bowel patterns, has been reported …

Ovarian hormones and pain response: a review of clinical and basic science studies

VT Martin - Gender medicine, 2009 - Elsevier
Background: Most clinical pain disorders are more common in women than in men,
particularly during the peak reproductive years. This suggests that fluctuations in the ovarian …

Excitatory and inhibitory pain mechanisms during the menstrual cycle in healthy women

Y Tousignant-Laflamme, S Marchand - Pain, 2009 - Elsevier
Sex differences in pain perception have been clearly documented in the literature during the
last decades and it has been shown that women perceived more pain than men. Sex …