Pain Management and Chronic Pain - Treatments
By taking the right preemptive steps, you don t have to endure severe pain after surgery.
Gastroparesis, also known as delayed gastric emptying, is a stomach disorder. Find out the causes, symptoms, and signs and what you can do to treat it.
Rather than living with the discomfort of pain, you should consider visiting a pain clinic.
If you are struggling with tinnitus, or ringing in the ears, there are a range of treatments to consider.
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.
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.
Research shows that marijuana may relieve symptoms of fibromyalgia.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Does one always mean the other? Chances are that the answer is "no".
Most people with carpal tunnel syndrome experience effective treatment with non-surgical methods, however if your symptoms are severe, long-lasting, and not responding to non-surgical treatments, surgery may be the right choice for you.
While chronic neck pain caused by mental and emotional stress is a modern American epidemic, there are some neck pain symptoms that are slightly more worrisome and may indicate a more serious problem.
Physical therapist Mitchell Yass discusses the differences between structural and muscular causes of pain and how they should be treated.
