Chronic pain is complex and difficult to treat. Prescribing opioid pain medications has become controversial but may help some patients. With the goal of informing clinician practice, a new study ...

Mar. 13, 2025 -- While some pain is normal and a necessary signal for our bodies, there is also pain that can be persistent and chronic. What is the difference between acute and chronic pain? And why ...

There’s a lot of buzz surrounding the new non-addictive pain pill that is up for FDA approval. It works as well as opioids for treating acute pain, and shows promise in treating chronic neuropathic ...

Dr. Daniel Amen's book, "Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain," offers breakthrough methods to treat chronic pain by targeting ...

Chronic back pain often starts small but gradually affects every part of life. Experts explain why it worsens and why ...

Chronic pain is discomfort that persists for more than three months and affects millions of Americans. In Indiana, chronic ...

“There’s a civil war in the pain community,” Daniel B. Carr, MD, president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, told STAT. “One group believes the primary goal of pain treatment is curtailing ...

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 ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is an inflammatory arthritis ...

Chronic pain may play a significant role in increasing the risk of developing high blood pressure. How long the pain lasts ...

Caro Morales de Valencia’s pain started at age 13. Around the time of her first period, she was consumed by days of crippling abdominal pain, as well as overwhelming fatigue, dizziness, and nausea. As ...

‘Civil war’ in medical community on how to treat chronic pain leaves some patients terrified ‘beyond description’ The opioid epidemic that is sweeping the nation claimed a record 27,000 lives in 2014, ...