The type of back pain you have determines what treatment will be effective. If your pain has been present for a year or more, ...

TENS, or transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, is a pain relief method that uses mild electrical currents to block pain signals or change how you perceive them. It's used for back pain and ...

Lower back pain can happen to anybody ... you narrow down the root cause of your pain and use interventions like pain management techniques and exercise to help improve your quality of life.

Chronic pain—defined as daily or significant pain that lasts more than three months—can be complicated to diagnose and treat.

Pain is subjective. Chronic low back pain might be debilitating for some and merely a nuisance to others. Turns out there's a ...

Even though the experience of pain varies from one person to the next, it is possible to categorize the different types of pain. Neuropathic pain is often described as a shooting or burning pain.

Pain self-management interventions mostly benefited patients with CWP who viewed them as personalized; flexible; and delivered by credible, attentive professionals.

Back pain is a thief—it can rob you of your all-important zzz's. The pain/no-sleep cycle is a vicious one and all too common for the 31 million Americans who experience low back pain, according to the ...

If you leave unmanaged hip flexor pain too long, it can tilt your pelvis forward, placing extra strain on your lower back, ...

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“Our nerves are essentially information highways,” says pain management specialist Neal Rakesh ... which often occurs in the chest but can also be felt in the sides and the back. Sometimes this pain ...

Brain scans can provide early warning of who will develop chronic pain following a whiplash injury, a new study finds.