Sex and gender

Sex, gender, and pain.

Timely topics in pain research and treatment have been selected for publication, but the information provided and opinions expressed in this newsletter have not involved any verification by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) or the SIG on Sex, Gender and Pain (SGP) of the findings, conclusions and opinions stated in this publication. Thus, opinions expressed in this publ...

Sex, gender, and vulnerability.

This paper is concerned with how sex chromosomes and gendered experience differentially contribute to health outcomes, and how gender effects provide an under-explored avenue for health intervention. Research on gender and health is currently undermined by conflation of sex and gender in much of the epidemiologic and clinical literature. This precludes any meaningful reflection on the extent to...

Sex and Gender Health

“Men are from Mars, women are from Venus.” This well-known metaphor originally intended to describe the psychological differences between men and women in romantic relationships in 1992, may actually be explained by fundamental differences in physiological, psychological, social and epidemiological factors. Physiologically, males and females differ in their genetic, hormonal and anatomical comp...

Sex and Gender

B. Know that women are at greater risk for several chronic painful disorders, including temporomandibular disorders, fibromyalgia, migraine headache, interstitial cystitis, joint pain, irritable bowel syndrome, complex regional pain syndrome, and trigeminal neuralgia (Unruh 1996; Jones and Nyberg 1997; LeResche 1999; Buckwalter and Lappin 2000; Dao and LeResche 2000). Be aware that these differ...

Sex and Gender