Chronic pain is one of the most intractable problems of modern medicine. A range of conditions cause people to suffer persistent pain, which does not respond well to medication, and for which no clear ...

Age is probably not the reason behind your joint pain, even if you’re an older athlete, according to Shmerling, the former ...

Chronic pain affects more than 50 million Americans, yet for decades, treatment options for pain that persists in the absence ...

A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will plan and host a public workshop on Treatment and Management of Chronic Pain. The workshop speakers and ...

For tens of thousands of New Zealanders, endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain are lived quietly—through canceled plans, lost ...

A neural circuit hidden in an understudied region of the brain plays a critical role in turning temporary pain into pain that can last months or years, according to new University of Colorado Boulder ...

In the ongoing search to find a pain intervention that does away with the need for opioids – and bypasses drugs altogether – a new game-based system has shown huge promise in tackling chronic ...

A new study has found that people living with chronic pain tend to be more perfectionistic, less self-compassionate and – depending on the measure – less confident in their ability to cope. These ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a physician and behavioral scientist at Duke University. We all know what “a complainer” is: it’s a person who finds the dark ...