[HTML][HTML] A pain research agenda for the 21st century

RW Gereau IV, KA Sluka, W Maixner, SR Savage… - The Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Chronic pain represents an immense clinical problem. With tens of millions of people in the
United States alone suffering from the burden of debilitating chronic pain, there is a moral
obligation to reduce this burden by improving the understanding of pain and treatment
mechanisms, developing new therapies, optimizing and testing existing therapies, and
improving access to evidence-based pain care. Here, we present a goal-oriented research
agenda describing the American Pain Society's vision for pain research aimed at tackling …