What if your brain is the reason some pain feels unbearable? Scientists at the Salk Institute have discovered a hidden brain ...

Chronic pain can result from nervous-system overload that creates physical symptoms in response to repressed emotions, therapist Nicole Sachs says.

Tennis elbow, the painful chronic condition that affects up to 3 percent of the US adult population, can be effectively treated through transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE), an image-guided ...

Over 20% of us adults experience chronic pain, research shows, and the prevalence is only increasing.Studies indicate that chronic pain often results in lost productivity, poor mental health ...

Chronic pain is the most common reason that people seek medical care. However, people living with high-impact chronic pain—pain that limits daily activities on all or most days for three months ...

Pain is the most common chronic ailment in America by far, a new study finds, and people in pain tend to stay in pain over the course of a year. The study, published this week in JAMA Network Open ...

Chronic pain is the most common reason that people seek medical care. However, people living with high-impact chronic pain—pain that limits daily activities on all or most days for three months ...

There are more new cases of chronic pain among US adults than other common long-term conditions like diabetes, depression and high blood pressure, according to a new study.

Doctors sometimes prescribe antidepressants to treat chronic pain when other, more common pain relievers aren’t working. But new research suggests not all types of antidepressants have the ...

To compare how chronic pain and acute pain are represented in the brain, participants were also exposed to a painful heat stimulus experiment in the lab. This time, in two participants, the neural ...

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 ...

Affecting more than 51 million Americans, chronic pain is more common than depression and diabetes, yet there are few medical interventions that offer safe, long-term relief. Scientists are hoping ...