In 2020, an estimated 54 million adults in the U.S. were living with chronic pain. Over 25 percent of them were treating their pain only with medication, and about 60 percent combined medicine with ...

Chronic pain is remarkably common: Roughly 20% of adults in the US live with it. And people with chronic pain are more likely to have depression, anxiety, and substance abuse disorders. But this ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a new comprehensive mapping of genetic activity for understanding the causes of chronic pain. The study, published in Nature ...

Vertebrogenic back pain, or vertebral endplate pain, is caused by damage to the endplates of your vertebrae. Your endplates contact the rubbery disk between each pair of vertebrae. The idea that ...

Screens have shrunk the world and stiffened spines. As desk jobs, mobiles and poor posture rule daily life, doctors warn that ...

Chronic pain is extremely common. What is it, and why is it so hard for many Americans to get relief? Muscle and joint aches. Shooting, stinging, or burning pain. Ongoing stiffness or squeezing ...

Almost everyone has pain sometimes. It might start as a twinge in your back, a dull ache in your knee, a tingling on the bottoms of your feet. Maybe you slept funny, or hoisted a full bag of groceries ...

Not only can experiencing chronic pain affect your mood, experiencing depression can also raise your chances of living with chronic pain. When you think of chronic pain and depression, you probably ...

Experiencing pain on the right side of your head? It could be a migraine, tension headache, or even related to lifestyle ...