"It's all in your head." It's a "suicide disease". These are some of the things chronic pain sufferers have been told over the years - and are still being told. Pain specialists say many chronic ...

there are certain strategies that can help manage the symptoms of chronic pain. Is pain all in a person’s head? Created with Sketch. Historically, pain was considered a physical sensation felt ...

Chronic neck pain, also called cervicalgia ... This type of neck pain is often most noticeable with cervical extension, or when you turn your head from side to side—making daily activities like ...

Pain in your back or neck area can come on suddenly and intensely. Chronic pain lasts for weeks, months, or even years. The pain can be constant or come and go. Dull, burning, or sharp pain in your ...

But it makes sense because living with RA and pain is incredibly stressful--emotionally and physically. It seems natural to me that my body's reaction would be to tense itself up into knots. Natural ...

She says we need to see the kind of priority that we put on helping people's asthma or diabetes - for the one-in-five New Zealanders living with chronic pain.

Photo: Getty Medical researchers are calling for changes to the treatment of chronic pain, with more routine screening for depression and anxiety among patients. It comes after a systematic review ...

About 40% of adults with chronic pain have anxiety or depression, according to new overseas research covering data from more than 50 countries. The research team looked at 376 studies comprising ...

If a person hides their own hand and focuses on a rubber hand instead, they may perceive it as part of their own body under certain conditions. What sounds like a gimmick could one day be used to help ...

Study selection RCTs that enrolled patients with chronic non-cancer spine pain, randomised to receive a commonly used interventional procedure versus sham procedure, usual care, or another ...