(119) Remembered worst pain events: descriptions, ratings, and sex differences

Chronic pain and sex differences

Sex differences in musculoskeletal pain.

Epidemiologic, clinical, and experimental evidence points to sex differences in musculoskeletal pain. Adult women more often have musculoskeletal problems than do men. Discrepant findings regarding the presence of such differences during childhood and adolescence continue. Biologic and psychosocial factors might account for these differences. The authors review evidence showing that mechanicall...

Sex differences in pain perception and interpretation

This study tries to explain the importance of sex differences in the perception of pain and its treatment. The study examines sex differences not only between men and women, but more generally – between males and females. The study deals with both experimental and clinical findings. Generally speaking, women have lower pain thresholds and they also differ in their response to analgesic therapy ...

Sex differences in the relationship between maternal negative life events and children's laboratory pain responsivity.

OBJECTIVES Previous research has demonstrated links between psychosocial factors, including negative life events (NLE) and pain in children. This study examined sex differences in the relationship among mother-reported NLE, child NLE, mother somatization, and children's laboratory pain responses for heat, cold, and pressure pain tasks. We predicted that maternal NLE would be moderately associat...

Deconstructing sex differences in pain sensitivity.

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