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 ...

Melatonin is best known for helping us sleep. But a new study suggests it might have another surprising use: easing muscle ...

July 10 is Chronic Disease Awareness Day, a time to recognize the millions of people living with illnesses that never truly ...

People with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) wake up every morning to relentless abdominal pain — the kind that makes ordinary activities feel impossible. The pain ...

Evidence suggests chronic pain can affect the mechanism that regulates blood pressure, causing blood pressure to become too high. High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is when the pressure ...

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 ...

Tired all the time? It might be in your DNA. A new study has uncovered striking genetic differences in people suffering from a devastating illness that causes extreme exhaustion, chronic pain and ...

Why Your Back Is Doing a Job It Was Never Meant to Do The lumbar spine is a load-bearing structure, not a load-moving one.

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 ...

Muscle strains, chronic pain conditions, arthritis, or rib injuries may all cause musculoskeletal chest pain. Musculoskeletal chest pain is pain relating to the muscles, tissues, and bones in the ...

Employees managing these conditions lead to high overtime, an average of 10 missed a year and rising stress and depression ...

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 ...