Background Pain drawings are a diagnostic adjunct to history taking, clinical examinations, and biomedical tests in evaluating pain. We hypothesized that somatoform-functional pain, is mirrored in ...

El-Salahi’s Pain Relief Drawings began in 2016 when the artist experienced bouts of intense pain. Finding art to be a release from his discomfort, El-Salahi cut up and drew on the backs of drug ...

Relief from pain is important when you are resting or going about your non-drawing, non-texting day. But if you have a tendinitis and decide to keep drawing, pain is an ally.

Many pictures drawn by Indigenous young people came with a narrative. In this painting, a 16-year-old wrote: 'My painting is about pain and the black represents how she feels inside. But she has ...

As Sylliboy sees it, “there’s a certain valour around being courageous with pain. Resilience around pain is a cultural teaching. When that’s passed down, it becomes a mask, not just a ...

Terrina Williams uses drawing and faith to cope with lupus pain while advocating for awareness of the autoimmune disease that affects 1.5 million Americans.

This study is looking into how art therapy can change the experience of pain after breast cancer treatment. The researchers want to see if and how art therapy sessions can affect your experience of ...

The flowchart (Figure 1) describes the selection of the 62 (56%) patients with somatoform-functional pain and the 49 (44%) patients with somatic-nociceptive pain. Of the orthopedic group, 6 ...