The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health supports a variety of research training and career development programs for students, postdoctoral researchers, and junior faculty. In this video, postdoctoral fellow Dr. Santiago Martinez Gonzalez describes the research on gender differences in pain that he’s conducting at the NCCIH labs. #ThisIsNIH | National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Pain research is a top priority for the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH). Why pain? Because it’s an important health issue and because there’s evidence that some of the approaches NCCIH studies (e.g., yoga, massage therapy, and acupuncture) may help people manage some painful health conditions. http://bit.ly/2bFb3sq NCCIH conducts research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) labs on the role of the brain in perceiving, modifying, and managing pain. They als

Proprioception is the brain’s “sixth sense” ability to sense the body’s position, equilibrium, and movement through space. This ability is what allows an athlete like Simone Biles to control her movements when performing gymnastics. Newly published research in The New England Journal of Medicine, conducted by researchers at NCCIH and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), showed how a mutation to the PIEZO2 gene is responsible for problems with touch and propriocept