The management of the pain state is of great therapeutic relevance to virtually every medical
specialty. Failure to manage its expression has deleterious consequence to the well-being …

Animal sentience refers to the capacity of animals to feel both positive and negative
emotions including that of pain. As veterinary health professionals, we have a medical and …

The measurement and treatment of acute pain in animals is essential from a welfare
perspective. Valid pain-related outcome measures are also crucial for ensuring reliable and …

Rationale: The robust advances in pain management for companion animals underlie the
decision of the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) and American Association of …

Preclinical studies involving large animal models aim to recapitulate the clinical situation as
much as possible and bridge the gap from benchtop to bedside. To date, studies …

Our limited ability to assess spontaneous pain in rodent models of painful human conditions
may be associated with a translational failure of promising analgesic compounds in to …

Rodent grimace scales have been recently validated for pain assessment, allowing
evaluation of facial expressions associated with pain. The standard scoring method is …

Current evidence suggests that botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) A1 and B1, given locally into
peripheral tissues such as skin, muscles, and joints, alter nociceptive processing otherwise …

This study aimed to evaluate the analgesic efficacy of gabapentin as an adjuvant for
postoperative pain management in dogs. Twenty dogs undergoing mastectomy were …

Rabbits are widely used in studies focusing on pain. However, pain is undertreated in this
species and one possible factor to explain this is the lack of evaluation methods. The …