Women's pain has long been ignored and undertreated — experts say that could be changing. (Getty Images) Two major developments in women's health have recently made news: less invasive alternatives to ...

Chronic pain has long forced patients into a trade-off between constant discomfort and the side effects of powerful drugs. A ...

Co-authored by neuroplastician, speaker, and author Jasmine Benson. Imagine you take a sugar pill, believing it to be a powerful painkiller, and your pain actually diminishes. Is it all in your head, ...

People often use the phrase “mind over matter” to describe situations where aches and pains in the body are overridden using the mind. A gardener comes in from gardening and is surprised to discover a ...

“Painsomnia” may not be an official medical term, but it’s a very real problem that steals precious hours of sleep from millions of Americans every night. Insomnia and chronic pain go hand-in-hand, ...

There is a cost to chronic pain. Isolation sets in. Friendships get lost. Hobbies are forgotten. The struggle to find purpose and significance consumes your mind. These are just some of the reasons ...

Almost everyone has pain sometimes. It might start as a twinge in your back, a dull ache in your knee, a tingling on the bottoms of your feet. Maybe you slept funny, or hoisted a full bag of groceries ...

The alarm clock blares, and you reach for your running shoes without thinking about it. Next thing you know, you’re jogging through your neighborhood on the same route as every other morning. You are ...

Gout pain can get worse at night for a number of reasons, such as changes in your hormones, changes in your body position, and fewer distractions. Gout is a type of arthritis resulting from uric acid ...

Sarah Wallwork receives payments for lectures on pain and rehabilitation. Sarah was funded by an NHMRC Investigator Grant awarded to GL Moseley (ID 1178444). Lorimer Moseley has received support from: ...

I’m Ezra Klein. This is “The Ezra Klein Show.” So maybe it’s that I’m in my 30s now. Maybe it’s that I have kids and I’m always picking them up, and pulling them out of car seats, and bending down.