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More Americans than ever are hurting with enduring, life-restricting pain. Like obesity, this condition is on the rise, according to figures in a new National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Data ...

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After developing chronic pain, I started looking into what scientists do — and still don’t — understand about the disease. Here is what I learned. By Jennifer Kahn Most of us don’t think about pain ...

Chronic pain continues to be one of the most challenging health problems that exists. Sadly, the suffering from chronic pain often flummoxes the medical community and leads to people feeling ignored ...

Amber Meade expected her foot to heal without complications. She rolled her ankle while pushing a shopping cart, but for six weeks, she continued working on her feet at a hospital in Jacksonville, ...

In the ongoing search to find a pain intervention that does away with the need for opioids – and bypasses drugs altogether – a new game-based system has shown huge promise in tackling chronic ...

About 40% of adults with chronic pain had clinical symptoms of depression and anxiety. Around 37% met the diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder, and 16.7% met criteria for generalized ...

Everyone experiences pain differently. But experts say there are things you can do to better cope with it. Magician David Blaine wears a protective suit before a 72-hour stunt in which he was ...

A new study adds to what has been emerging in the literature — namely that there appear to be gut microbiome “signatures” for various pain conditions — suggesting that microbiome-based diagnostics and ...

If you're experiencing chronic pain — or at risk of it — this list will help you prepare yourself and know what to ask and do Getty For years, cases of chronic pain have been climbing. In fact, a ...

Pain is our body’s way of letting us know that something is wrong. For many people living with chronic illness, pain alerts us that our disease is flaring and that we need medical treatment. While we ...