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Treating Pain When It Becomes a Disease in Its Own Right
Navigating the path to chronic pain control is tricky. For the patient and the doctor, the challenge is that there is no single drug or therapy. A combination of approaches, often coordinated by a team of pain experts, is best. Chronic pain can begin with an injury or a problem such as a bulging disk in the spine. It can be associated with complex syndromes such as fibromyalgia. Or you may experience it as headaches, back pain, joint pain, nerve pain, or a myriad of other localized symptoms. Read more...
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All Chronic Pain Articles
Pain Tests, Doctors, and Attitudes
Low Back Pain
- Safe Strategies for Preventing Back Pain
- Why Your Back Hurts: The Surprising Causes of Low Back Pain
- Getting to the Bottom of Your Chronic Back Pain
- The Three Types of Low Back Pain
- Getting Moving Will Help Your Back Pain
- Find the Back Pain Treatment That Is Right for You
- Chronic Back Pain Needs Special Attention and Targeted Treatment
- Take Action to Heal Your Back
- When Should You Have an MRI for Your Back Pain?
- How to Decide if Surgery Can Solve Your Low Back Pain
- When Surgery Can Help Chronic Back Pain
- A Step-by-Step Guide to Making a Good Decision About Back Surgery
- Choosing Back Surgery: Two Patients' Stories
- 7 Questions You Should Ask Your Doctor About Back Surgery
Headaches and Migraines
- Identify the Pain in Your Head: The 5 Kinds of Headaches
- 3 Headaches That Require Emergency Attention
- A Guide to the Most Common Kind of Headache: Tension
- Is It a Cluster Headache and What Can Ease the Pain?
- Guide to the Symptoms and Types of Migraines
- Getting Your Doctor to Take Your Migraines Seriously
- What's Happening During a Migraine
- Getting to the Bottom of Your Headaches: The Top Migraine Triggers
- The Migraine Trigger Checklist: Find Out What's Causing Your Headaches
- Reduce Your Headaches by Keeping a Headache Diary
- The Best Medications for Treating and Stopping Migraines
- Why You Need to Experiment With Migraine Medication
- Neurologist Lisa Mannix Explains What You Need to Know About the Pain in Your Head
- Get Support and Beat the Stigma of Migraine
Arthritis
- What Is Osteoarthritis?
- What Are the Symptoms of Osteoarthritis?
- 7 Steps to Easing Your Osteoarthritis at Home
- Take Control of Your Osteoarthritis
- Safe Strategies for Using Over-the-Counter Arthritis Drugs
- Can Glucosamine and Chondroitin Help Your Arthritis?
- Why You Should Exercise and Lose Weight to Alleviate Arthritis Pain
- Tackling Everyday Life With Arthritis: Patient Struggles and Strategies
- Yes, You Can Have an Active Sex Life With Arthritis
- Should You Have Hip Replacement Surgery? What You Need to Know to Make This Important Decision
- How Two Patients Took the Plunge Into Hip and Knee Surgery
- Strategies for a Faster Recovery From Hip and Knee Surgery
- Why I Chose a Double Hip Replacement and How I Bounced Back
- What Is Rheumatoid Arthritis?
- Living With Rheumatoid Arthritis
- The Growing List of Medications to Treat Rheumatoid Arthritis
Living With Fibromyalgia
- What Doctors Know About Fibromyalgia
- Symptoms of Fibromyalgia: What It Feels Like
- How Fibromyalgia Is Diagnosed
- Why Fibromyalgia Is So Hard to Diagnose
- Why Fibromyalgia Has a Credibility Problem
- The Newest Understanding of Fibromyalgia
- Learn How to Manage Your Fibromyalgia
- Medications Used to Treat Fibromyalgia
- How Antidepressants Can Treat Fibromyalgia
- Lyrica: What You Need to Know About the First Drug Approved to Treat Fibromyalgia
- How Exercise Can Alleviate the Pain of Fibromyalgia
- Complementary and Alternative Therapies Can Be Effective Treatments for Fibromyalgia
- Accepting Fibromyalgia and Moving Past It: Patients Share Their Coping Strategies
- How Fibro Fog Clouds Thinking and How to Break Through It
- 4 Steps to Beating Fibro Fog
- Breaking Through the Fibromyalgia Sleep Problem
Cancer Pain
- Cancer Pain Expert Eduardo Bruera Explains Why Patients Need to Be Honest About Their Pain
- The Dangers of Not Treating Cancer Pain
- 7 Reasons Cancer Patients Don't Talk About Pain, and Why They Should
- How Two Patients Found Relief From Cancer Pain
- Take Control of Your Cancer Pain
- Tips for Using Narcotics for Cancer Pain: Stay Alert for Side Effects or Addiction
- How Fentanyl Relieves Cancer Pain
- What You Need to Know About Antidepressants and Cancer Pain
- How Anticonvulsants Control Cancer Pain
- How Corticosteroids Can Reduce Cancer Pain
- Radiation Can Provide Effective Cancer Pain Relief
- Treating Cancer Pain Sometimes Means Treating Depression Too
- How Caregivers Can Be Effective Cancer Painkillers
- 6 Ways to Help Alleviate a Loved One's Cancer Pain
Drugs: Relief and Addiction
- A Guide to Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs
- Important Facts About Non-Narcotic Pain Drugs
- Tips for Managing the Side Effects of Narcotic Painkillers
- Painkiller Addiction: A Smaller Risk Than You May Think
- How Fear of Narcotic Abuse Makes It Hard for Pain Patients to Get the Medicine They Need
- When Your Doctor Won't Prescribe Narcotics: Tips for Getting the Pain Relief You Need
- How Tricyclic Antidepressants Can Help Relieve Chronic Pain
- Antidepressants for Pain and Depression: One Patient Shares Her Struggles and Success
- Breakthrough Pain: When the Usual Drugs Stop Working
- Stopping Breakthrough Pain With Fast-Acting Drugs
- What to Do When Pain Medication Is Dulling Your Sex Life
Alternative Pain Therapies
- How the Mind Controls Pain
- How Meditation Releases and Relieves Pain
- A Practical Guide to Meditation
- 3 Chronic Pain Conditions That Can Be Relieved Through Meditation
- Yoga: What It Is and How It Helps
- 4 Ways Yoga Relieves Low Back Pain
- How Acupuncture Works From the Perspective of Western Medicine
- How Acupuncture Relieves Pain and Other Conditions
- How Acupuncture Helped: One Pain Patient's Story
- Using Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy to Control Your Chronic Pain
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Can Stop Pain Obsession
- Change the Way You Think About Pain With Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
- A Guide to Biofeedback: How This Complementary Therapy Can Help Pain Patients
- 3 Ways Biofeedback Helps Patients Control Chronic Pain
- How Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) Can Bring Pain Relief
Coping With Chronic Pain
