If you’re one of the millions of people suffering from chronic back and neck pain, figuring out how to get relief can feel like a pain in the neck. From lifestyle changes to medications, several ...

The bench press exercise primarily involves the chest and shoulder muscles. Since the neck connects to these major muscle groups, it shares some of the load. Occasionally, this means sharing the pain ...

If you have a headache with neck pain, it could be cervicogenic headache. This article summarizes symptoms and whether ...

Chronic pain is complex and difficult to treat. Prescribing opioid pain medications has become controversial but may help some patients. With the goal of informing clinician practice, a new study ...

See how chiropractic adjustments target spinal segments to relieve neck pain and improve mobility, addressing the root cause of discomfort. Curious about the technique?

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 ...

We are living in a historic period where artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning provides the foundation to rapidly transform human health and wellness. A new peer-reviewed study by researchers ...

A guitarist in a death metal band was one of several people who found that personalized deep brain stimulation eased their pain and helped them reduce pain medication. A guitarist in a death metal ...

Whether it’s a dull, underlying ache in your spine or a piercing stab, chronic back pain affects roughly 1 in 4 Americans. UC San Francisco’s Prasad Shirvalkar, MD, Ph.D, neurologist and pain medicine ...

With the goal of informing clinician practice, a new study explores the harms and benefits of continuing and of discontinuing the long-term prescription of opioid medicines to adults with chronic pain ...