Scientists discover path to better pain medicines

Alternative medicine: Can supplements help your back pain?

Supplements. You’ve been told you should take them to help your neck or back pain. Your research on the Internet, though, revealed some staggering and confusing information. And, now, you’re overwhelmed. Don’t let all the overwhelming information frighten you. Those supplements can still be beneficial to your health. After my spine surgery with Laser Spine …

Why Are Medical Associations Against Alternative Medicine?

Find out why the American Medical Association and other conventional medical groups oppose chiropractors and naturopaths who practice alternative medicine.

This Surprising Treatment May Address Back Pain

How to Defeat Back Pain

Our comprehensive guide to treating—and preventing—back pain.

As a doctor, did I just feed an addiction? Or ease a man's pain?

Among physicians, the opioid and overdose epidemics have transformed the treatment of pain into a moral and clinical cage fight.

7 Simple Tips to Manage Your Chronic Pain

Pain is the body’s way of letting you know that something is wrong. Learn more about managing chronic pain and preventing it from affecting your professional and personal life.

Top 10 Tips for Treating Back Pain

If you're experiencing your first really bad backache, you're probably panicking a little about the pain and its implications — what if it's cancer? What if it never goes away? My first piece of advice is, relax.

How to Avoid Back Pain on a Plane

A doctor tells you everything you need to know to avoid stiffness and spasms.

11 things you should know about common pain relievers

Once upon a time, easing pain was relatively simple: take two aspirin and call the doctor in the morning. Now there are many pain relievers to choose from (see Pain relievers at a glance). Willow bark was one of the earliest painkillers. Extracts or ...

10 factors influencing the treatment of chronic pain

Having a detailed road map of the most important factors to consider in the treatment of chronic pain can help guide injured workers, clinicians, claims managers and employers to better outcomes.

How to End Lower Back Pain 

Lower-back pain is the most common disabling pain in people under 45‚ and almost everyone will suffer from it at some point. Fortunately, there are fast fixes you can do for immediate pain relief.

What’s Causing The Pain In My Neck & Lower Back After A Car Accident?

Two of the most common pain generators in the lumbar spine are 1) the discs, and 2) the facet joints, with facet oriented pain being more common the older you get, and discogenic pain being more common overall. If you’re...

Why You Should See a Chiropractor First for Back Pain

When your lower back hurts, about the only thing you can think of is how to get relief. Depending upon the cause of your pain, sometimes you need a little help speeding up or enhancing the recovery process. Before you go to your primary care physician, physical therapist, or other health professional in search of [...]

What Is Chronic Pain and What Are the Symptoms?

Everyone feels pain from time to time, but chronic pain is different. Find out what causes chronic pain and how it can affect your emotional health.

Pain In The Back? Exercise May Help You Learn Not To Feel It

There's evidence that many standard treatments for back pain — including surgery, spinal injections and painkillers — are often ineffective and can even worsen and prolong the problem.

Do injections for back pain only offer temporary relief?

An orthopedic surgeon offers other approaches to spine problems.

Tips for Preventing Neck Pain

Neck pain is quite common because the neck is comprised of muscles, bones, ligaments and nerves that are less protected than other areas of the spine.

Common Pains of Aging: How to Feel Better

WebMD explains which type of pain you’re more likely to have at different times in life, and how to ease each one.