Research Article
An English New Word “Painology” Should Be Made to Name the Pain Medicine —— A Discuss On the Pain Medicine to Be a Discipline
Issue:
Volume 1, Issue 3, September 2025
Pages:
44-47
Received:
4 July 2025
Accepted:
8 September 2025
Published:
26 September 2025
Abstract: Background: In the pain science research field, there is no suitable English term to describe the pain medicine as discipline, “pain medicine” is only to make a general reference to this field, which is not refer to a special discipline. This count against the knowledge and the development of pain research. Objective: This paper aimed to make a word to name the pain medicine as a whole body. In order to make the pain medicine to be an independent discipline. Methods: In the English vocabulary, There is another word “algology”, which sometimes means pain treatment, but its main meaning is a discipline to research sea plant. I don’t agree with this word to name the pain discipline because it can not to make a distinction between the two meanings usually. So we suggest creating a new English term “Painology”, that is Pain + ology to describe this new discipline, using this new term to replace “pain medicine", because there is no other English term suitable for this purpose. Results: The facts mentioned in the paper turned out to be right. CMA and all the authors of my journal approve to name the Chinese pain journal to be “Chinese Journal of Painology "in 2020. Now the name of pain department in most of hospital in China is Department of Painology taken the place of Department of Pain Medicine and Department of Pain Management. Conclusion: The new term “Paiology” is correct for the pain discipline, and we hope that the medical science and the terminology organization in the world could accept our suggestion to name the new discipline painology.
Abstract: Background: In the pain science research field, there is no suitable English term to describe the pain medicine as discipline, “pain medicine” is only to make a general reference to this field, which is not refer to a special discipline. This count against the knowledge and the development of pain research. Objective: This paper aimed to make a wor...
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Research Article
From Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, Talking About the Pain Basic Research
Li Sheng Zhang*
Issue:
Volume 1, Issue 3, September 2025
Pages:
48-51
Received:
4 July 2025
Accepted:
8 September 2025
Published:
26 September 2025
Abstract: Background: The two winners of Nobel Prize, David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian in physiology and medicine studied the temperature and tactile transient receptor potential, revealing the inner mystery of temperature and tactile receptors, thus laying the general direction of pain clinic and basic research. This makes me Think about how our pain doctors in China can deeply study the pathogenesis of painful diseases based on their pain research results, and fundamentally cure many painful diseases. Objective The purpose of this article is to explore how to further study the pathogenesis of painful diseases, and to call on pain doctors to be dedicated spirit, believing that winning the Nobel Prize is possible in the future. Methods: Based on the development status of pain research in China, this paper analyzes the achievements and shortcomings of Chinese basic and clinical research of pain in recent years, so as to point out the direction of future research. Results: Since the establishment of pain departments in almost all hospitals in China in 2007 and the renaming of many pain departments to Painology in 2015, China's scientific research in pain studies has achieved significant progress. Numerous clinical studies have led globally, particularly in the treatment of clinical diseases such as trigeminal neuralgia and herpes zoster-related pain, and in terms of treatment methods, both radiofrequency thermocoagulation and trigeminal nerve root balloon compression have all gained extensive experiences. However, the disadvantage is the lack of basic research and the failure to study the pathogenesis in depth, so that many diseases cannot be cured radically. Many research papers are for the purpose of degree and promotion, and after publication, they are shelved and rarely translated into clinical treatment. Conclusion: The authors call on clinicians to go to the laboratory, to start with clinical phenomena, and to engage in pathogenesis research in the laboratory with dedicative spirit, so as to cure pain diseases. It is possible for clinicians to win the Nobel Prize.
Abstract: Background: The two winners of Nobel Prize, David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian in physiology and medicine studied the temperature and tactile transient receptor potential, revealing the inner mystery of temperature and tactile receptors, thus laying the general direction of pain clinic and basic research. This makes me Think about how our pain doct...
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