Pain Management and Chronic Pain - Original Articles

Experiencing functional pain? If so, look to the muscle for establishing the cause.

While back pain and injury is prevalent among Americans, there are steps you can take to reduce your risk.

Dietary modification, environmental modifications, and allergy medications can all help in preventing the onset of allergy-related migraines.

Companies that make knee braces claim that their products work well. However, scientific studies have not completely agreed.

When some one has pain on one side of the lower back, it's not uncommon to find either gluteus medius is weak causing the lower back muscle to strain.

Suffering from a rare pain disorder not only affects your physical health, but also your mental health.

Bioelectric therapy is a safe, drug-free treatment option for people in pain.

There is evidence that exercise may be one of the best things you can do to manage chronic pain.

Misuse of pain pills can result in a wide variety of health issues, including death.

A new study in men hints that popping over-the-counter painkillers regularly can also lead to hearing loss, especially in younger men.

Perhaps you're tired all of the time and your body aches, but your doctor can't find anything specifically wrong with you. If this sounds all too familiar, it's possible that you have a chronic condition called fibromyalgia.

Research shows that marijuana may relieve symptoms of fibromyalgia.

Physical therapist Mitchell Yass examines the true causes of knee pain.

Yoga helps people with chronic lower back pain ease their pain more than conventional treatment alone, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

TENS therapy is a method of pain relief that might be the answer for you.

It seems that trigger finger is not the most common of injuries that people experience, but when it occurs, it is a real nuisance. It affects your ability to grab objects and can be very painful.

Cognitive behavioral therapy has been shown to be an effective way to treat chronic pain.

Recent study confirms pain relief benefits of marijuana.

You can reduce your risk for stress injuries on the job by setting up an ergonomic workstation.

While there are many back surgery success stories, surgeons advise that the decision for surgery should not be rushed.

Carpal tunnel syndrome is one of the most misdiagnosed syndromes.

Perfumes, weather, and even your up-do can cause that dreaded headache.

Pain management is an integral part of cancer treatment, so it's important to tell your doctor if you're in pain or if your discomfort changes.

Many of the foods that you eat may be making your pain worse. Knowing what foods to avoid and what other dietary changes you can make to eliminate your pain could be the key to changing the quality of your life.

While narcotic painkillers may bring you temporary relief from pain, they may bring you some other challenges due to their side effects.

When an individual gets pain at the elbow, frequently the diagnosis is tennis elbow. This condition is considered to be the result of irritation of the tendons from the muscles that extend the wrist and fingers found on the top of the forearm.

Biofeedback, a non-invasive form of treatment, has been shown to effectively help a variety of disorders from headaches to high blood pressure.

Understanding how muscle works can help to understand how muscle can affect pain.

In a study last year by the National Institutes of Health, acupuncture helped ease chronic lower back pain in a majority of participants.

Too much text messaging may increase the risk of neck or shoulder pain, a recent study shows.