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Do I Have Chronic Pain?

Just about everyone feels pain from time to time. When you hurt yourself, the injury turns on pain sensors in that area. Both a lack of sleep and m...

Pain Types and Classifications

Chronic pain can be the result of damaged tissue, but very often is attributable to nerve damage. Pain is most often classified by the kind of dama...

Symptoms & Causes

Learn the most common causes of low back pain, symptoms that may require urgent care, and more. While it may begin with an injury or illness, pain ...

Types of Pain

Learn common causes of abdominal pain and when to contact your doctor. Learn about how chronic pain occurs, and why chronic pain sometimes lingers....

Pain Management: Osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis, or degenerative joint disease, is the most common type of arthritis. It is associated with the breakdown of a joint's cartilage. Ca...

Living & Managing

These need to be addressed along with the physical causes of pain. Chronic pain can cause some sexual problems.

Pain Clinics: what to Know

Also called pain management clinics, they're health care facilities that focus on the diagnosis and management of chronic pain.

Pain Management and Nerve Blocks

Nerve blocks are used for pain treatment and management. Although many kinds of nerve blocks exist, this treatment cannot always be used.

Opioid (Narcotic) Pain Medications

And your doctor may prescribe opioids to be taken 'as needed' in case you have 'breakthrough' pain -- a flare of pain that you get despite round-th...

Hip Pain: Causes and Treatment

Arthritis leads to inflammation of the hip joint and the breakdown of the cartilage that cushions your hip bones. Whenever you use the hip (for exa...

Why Does My Hand Hurt?

Hand pain can happen for many reasons, from accidents to conditions that are ongoing. Surgery may be an option if symptoms remain severe after you ...

Pinched (Compressed) Nerve

For example, inflammation or pressure on a nerve root exiting the spine may cause neck or low back pain. Or pain may radiate into the leg and foot ...