For the one in five Australians who carry a nameless, internal pain through each day, medicine has long offered management where it could not offer healing. Researchers at Adelaide University, backed by five million dollars in federal funding, are now attempting something more ambitious: tracing chronic visceral pain — the kind that underlies IBS, IBD, and endometriosis — back to its origin in overactive nerve pathways, and silencing it there. Led by Professor Stuart Brierley and grounded in more than a decade of foundational work, the five-year program represents a philosophical shift in how
Adelaide researchers launch $5M push to target chronic visceral pain at source
Chronic visceral pain significantly impacts quality of life, physical health, mental wellbeing, and daily functioning for millions of Australians and people worldwide.