If you’ve had sciatica leg pain, you know it can be miserable—shooting pain in your leg and sometimes tingling, weakness, or numbness. Sciatica pain starts when something in your body, often a herniated disk, is pressing on…
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A comprehensive guide on chronic pain, its causes, symptoms, and effective management strategies to improve your quality of life.
New Chronic Pain Treatments Help the Whole Person
Women who live with chronic pain seek relief through all kinds of treatments, from acupuncture to physical therapy, medication to psychology. But in recent years, researchers have proven a multidisciplinary approach to chronic pain management…
Coping with Whole Body Pain
It’s bad enough to have a headache or backache. But when literally everything seems to hurt, you’re truly miserable. You can have trouble getting through simple daily activities and may find it hard to get a good…
Why I’m Talking About My Chronic Pain and Why You Should Too
As a physical therapist, my job is to assist my patients to move better, get stronger, and most often to reduce their pain. This is an important, gratifying, and yet often challenging profession. This is…
What to Look for in a Pain Management Clinic
If you’re in pain, you’re not alone. About 1 in 4 Americans suffer from pain that lasts more than 24 hours. In fact, more people suffer from pain than from cancer, heart disease, and diabetes…
Smart Steps for Healthy Feet
Are your feet something you think about only when they hurt? Simple steps can protect them from common problems, some of which are hard to get rid of. READ: The Ways to Treat Your Feet…
The 7 Most Common Types of Neck Injury
If your car was rear-ended two days ago, and you wake up with neck pain, the cause is obvious: you’re likely suffering from whiplash. Other times the cause of your neck injury can be more…
Nerve Block Technique Might Help Chronic Back Pain
A procedure that uses radio waves to treat chronic low back pain provided long-lasting relief to a small group of patients, researchers report. Called intradiscal biacuplasty (IDB), the procedure uses two water-cooled needles to blast…
What is a Quell Device?
Chronicillness.co Site of United States values innovation, so when a new FDA-approved device comes out, we want our patients to be the first to learn about the possible benefits. You may have heard of a…
9 Questions to Ask About Postsurgical Pain Management
One of the best ways to ease anxiety about a major event, like surgery, is to plan ahead. Conversations about postsurgical pain management need to happen before your procedure, so you can focus on your…