Chronic pain affects an estimated 100 million Americans, making it one of the most common long-term health conditions in the United States. While it is not typically life-threatening, its impact can ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For patients with knee osteoarthritis, self-administered acupressure may yield a greater reduction in pain vs.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a physician and behavioral scientist at Duke University. Chronic pain often depends as much or more on the brain’s response ...

New research has found that the benefits of graded sensorimotor retraining are likely to be similar for all patients with chronic low back pain.

Mindfulness meditation is effective in reducing pain relief; a new study reveals the underlying neural circuitry. For centuries, people have been using mindfulness meditation to try to relieve their ...

If your hips and knees function well and are totally pain-free, you might just take it for granted. When you need to power through a workout, kneel in your garden, or climb a set of stairs, you just ...

Most therapies for low back pain provide only short-term relief; it's unclear, however, whether benefits from cognitive functional therapy (CFT) may last longer. Investigators in this study performed ...

Chronic pain is a common problem, causing widespread, often silent, suffering. It not only reduces quality of life for those so afflicted, but it puts a strain on personal relationships and negatively ...