Health Sense: Flawed pain science blurs question of he felt, she felt
Saturday, October 9, 2010 - 16:50
in Health & Medicine
It's one of the more puzzling observations in medicine: The vast majority of chronic pain patients are women. Women suffer disproportionately from irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, headaches (especially migraines), pain caused by damage to the nervous system, osteoarthritis and much more. Women also report more acute pain than men after the same common surgeries.