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Pain Management: Psychological Therapy

Psychological treatment provides a safe, non-drug method to treat your pain directly by reducing high levels of physiological stress that often agg...

Manage Opioids

CTA: Prevent opioid constipation. It's not safe to break, cut, chew, dissolve, or crush certain types of opioid pills before taking them. Don't alt...

Knee Pain Dos and Donts

You can do many things to help knee pain, whether it's due to a recent injury or arthritis you've had for years. Follow these 11 dos and don’ts to ...

Whats Causing My Knee Pain?

And if you have a torn ligament or certain knee injuries, you may need surgery. But injuries can happen, and they often involve the knees. If you h...

What are The Treatments for Knee Bursitis?

Knee bursitis pain, tenderness, and swelling can be hard to manage. Aspiration: They use a needle to drain the fluid out of your knee. Steroid inje...

ACL Injury: what to Know

One of the most common ways people hurt their knees is by injuring their ACL (anterior cruciate ligament). You may feel sore along your knee’s join...

Patient-Controlled Analgesia (PCA)

Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) is a method of pain control that gives patients the power to control their pain. The pump can be used whenever t...

Everyday Tips for Chronic Back Pain

Your back pain could get better, and soon. If you think that you can’t be active because of your back pain, that’s understandable but misguided. Ev...

Common Pain and Pain Relief Myths

There are countless options for pain relief. Health care providers begin with a conservative approach to pain relief and prescribe non-narcotic pai...

What is Trochanteric Bursitis?

When that outside hip bursa gets inflamed, you have trochanteric bursitis. The trochanteric bursa, like other bursae, may become inflamed if the hi...

Cervical Radiculopathy

Cervical radiculopathy, often called a pinched nerve, is the damage or a change in the way a nerve works resulting from one of the nerve roots near...

Trigeminal Neuralgia

Trigeminal neuralgia is an ongoing pain condition that affects certain nerves in your face. For people who have what’s called “atypical” trigeminal...