Dr. Rich and company discuss chronic pain. Dr. Rich and company discuss chronic pain, how physical activity can support pain prevention, and the latest in non-surgical treatment options. And the team ...

A light brush of fabric against skin should not cause agony. But for the roughly 51 million American adults living with ...

Wearing a cast, taking pain medication and getting a warning to be more careful often puts people on the quickest road to recovery from a broken arm. But that road can be longer when an ailment isn’t ...

University of Warwick real-time study shows how ‘mental defeat’ drives suffering and causes people with chronic pain to withdraw from everyday activities.

Despite yeoman efforts by researchers over many decades to find objective changes of an underlying, causative disease, they have been unable to explain chronic pain or many other syndromes, such as ...

Chronic pain is not like pain from an injury. It has a different cause and a different treatment. Chronic pain often arises from the brain, while injury pain comes from damaged tissue in the body like ...

Chronic pain might quietly push people toward developing high blood pressure—and the more widespread the pain, the greater the danger. A massive analysis of over 200,000 adults uncovered strong links ...

Chronic pain isn’t just a matter of managing persistent aching, stinging, aching, or burning. It causes physical trauma and stress that can negatively impact your cardiovascular health. People with ...

Chronic pain lasts longer for women than men, and new research suggests differences in hormone-regulated immune cells, called monocytes, may help explain why. In a new paper in Science Immunology, ...

U.K. resident Fiona McNiven can tell you how chronic pain can wear a person down, as she spent more than three decades ...

A recent study suggests that emotional distress can significantly worsen chronic pain. Published in the journal American Psychological Association, the study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins ...