Chronic pain is a condition that affects upwards of 50 million Americans, according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control, and it comes in two forms. “You have acute pain. You have ...

Gabapentin is used to treat partial seizures that occur with epilepsy and nerve pain resulting from nerve damage such as: Postherpetic neuralgia, a type of nerve pain caused by shingles Diabetic ...

An estimated 51.6 million adults, or about 21% of the adult population in the United States, live with chronic pain. This is why ...

For years, virtual reality (VR) has been used in pain management for hospitalized adults and children, to take their minds ...

A new Yale study has uncovered the hidden mechanical move that may regulate pain signaling in the human body—and why it ...

UT Health San Antonio is pioneering the use of suzetrigine, a non-opioid painkiller, for post-surgical care. The medication provides strong pain control without the harmful effects of narcotics. UT He ...

"Let's do it," Shelly Spears told her doctor. "I can no longer live like this." The "it" in this case was a procedure in which doctors would anesthetize an area of her back and then burn off a chunk ...

A pain-management physician explains what "pain tolerance" really means, how it's measured, and the individual factors that play into it. So much of the popular discourse around pain focuses on the ...

For more than a decade, Lynnette lived in the shadow of debilitating pain. What began as persistent discomfort in her back ...

A smartphone application powered by artificial intelligence (AI) for monitoring and managing pain in patients with advanced cancer has the potential to provide access to palliative care for the entire ...

NBA star Jayson Tatum of the Boston Celtics opens up about rupturing his Achilles tendon during the Eastern Conference ...