When you cut your finger, your nerves send signals to your brain telling it where the pain is. But when your nerves are damaged, the nerve itself becomes the source of pain. This is called neuropathy. Learn how to spot the four main types of nerve pain.
It’s hard to imagine life without sports. They entertain, provide exercise, teach valuable lessons, and for pros, serve as a source of income. But all that comes at a cost — frequent injuries. Here’s how to keep playing and avoid the pain.
When all the at-home tricks fail, and even medicine and surgery can’t stop your pain, you may need to override your nerves and stop the pain at its source. Find out if spinal cord stimulation can turn off your pain.
When you feel pain, you stop moving — common sense, right? Not always. It depends on what type of pain you’re feeling. Find out how activity is actually the remedy for, not the cause of, some joint pain.
The list of complications from being overweight runs long, with diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension at the top. What you may not know is that every extra pound you carry also risks hurting your discs — here’s how.
There’s a reason people use the phrase “a pain in the neck” so often — it’s the perfect way to describe things that annoy you and cause discomfort and distress. But it’s more than a cliché. Find out when that crick in your neck needs medical care.
Your body is slowly shrinking. As you age, your muscles, heart, brain, and sex organs decrease in size with no consequence. But when your spine narrows, it really hurts. Here’s what you need to know about spinal stenosis.
If abdominal pain has you hunching over in agony and missing out on daily activities and important life events, you not only need relief, you need a lasting solution. Here’s how regenerative medicine can deliver both.
Car crashes are the most common cause of whiplash, but not the only one. Anything that jerks your head back-and-forth can give you the same pain in the neck, like falling, being shaken, or colliding in sports. Here’s what to do if it happens to you.
You ache all over but have nothing to prove it. Medical tests come back negative, and doctors just shrug their shoulders and send you to yet another specialist. All you want is a cure for the pain of fibromyalgia. Is there any hope?
Chronic pain affects every aspect of your life — mental, emotional, relational, and physical — and robs you of activity, freedom, and joy. But a pain pump can put you back in control. Find out if you’re a candidate.
When you feel a sudden shooting pain or burning sensation but there’s no obvious reason, you may have neuralgia — but what kind? Here are the many faces of neuralgia and all you need to know about them.
It hurts to move, so you don’t move. Makes sense, right? Think again. Staying put can actually put you on a cycle of less mobility and more pain. Get off the merry-go-round with physical therapy.
Creaky knees, achy elbows, and stiff shoulders can make it hard to do the things you love. And the pain makes it hard to do the rehab required to heal and recover. Find out how injection therapy can alleviate joint pain and turn your life around.
Occasional pain is a part of life. Aches come and go. But if you have nagging pain in one extremity for more than a few months, it could be chronic regional pain syndrome. Here’s what you need to know.
Getting medical care for whiplash as soon as possible is important for managing pain and lowering your risk for long-term complications.
Between 6-9 million Americans live with scoliosis. And, while it can affect people of all ages, it’s most common in children between 10-15 years of age. Keep reading to learn why early detection is key when it comes to managing this common condition.
If you’re suffering from persistent, excruciating back pain that doesn’t respond to traditional and minimally invasive treatments, you might be a candidate for an effective, last-resort option called rhizotomy.
Since sciatica most often results from a herniated spinal disc, any factor that contributes to herniation raises your risk. Additional body weight can often create forces on your joints that are much greater than the amount of weight itself.
Are chronic headaches stealing your energy and joy? Find out what might be causing them and what treatment options are available.
Do you have constant tension and pain in your neck? It could be connected to living in a digital world where we fixate on small screens for hours at a time. Find out if “tech neck” could be the root of your pain.
If you’ve tried everything short of surgery to get rid of your knee pain, you may think you’re running out of options. Learn how effective viscosupplementation is in remedying knee pain, and find out if it’s right for you.
Living with diabetic nerve pain, or peripheral neuropathy, can be debilitating. While the first step is managing your blood sugar, there are other things you can do to help ward off your pain and the progression of symptoms.
Many arthritis sufferers remain unaware of the myriad solutions available to ease their pain. Learn how regenerative medicine can help.
While most cases of acute back pain resolve within a few weeks, 20% of people develop chronic pain. Finding treatments to relieve the pain can be difficult. If everything you’ve tried has failed, it may be time to try a spinal cord stimulator.