The same activities and behaviours that can cause eye strain and discomfort often also result in neck and back pain. What are these activities, and when can eye discomfort be a symptom of neck and back muscle tension, and vice versa? If you have ever
2024-07-17
The Disabled Diva Blog Making life with chronic pain from fibromyalgia, psoriatic arthritis, and endometriosis, and surgical errors easier to live with and less painful. Menu + × expanded collapsed Are you ready for your next fibromyalgia flare? Pain from
2024-07-14
The condition can often look like run-of-the-mill back pain—but it shouldn't be ignored. Up to 70% of adults around the world will suffer from back pain at some point in their lives, according to the World Health Organization. And while it's easy to brush
2024-07-02
Chronic pain affects a significant portion of the U.S. population, with recent data estimating more than 1 in 5 American adults experiences chronic pain. Chronic pain is commonly defined as pain persisting beyond normal tissue healing time and is typically
2024-04-12
Technically,chronic pain is diagnosed if it persists three to six months or moreafter an injury or disease heals. Sometimes there is a clear cause of the pain—such as arthritis—but other times there isn’t a specific trigger or underlying illness or
2024-04-11
Since all of this began in May 2020, I've had a rib removed; a neck and chest muscle cut out; and more injections, doctors appointments, and days in bed than I would care to admit. And yet, the prospect that terrified me the most wasn't a looming procedure or
2024-04-10
Background: Although multiple measures of the causes and consequences of chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) are available and can inform pain management, no quantitative summary of these measures can describe the meaning of pain for a patient. The lived
2024-02-29
Physical Therapy in Emergency Care: Research on the Value of Physical Therapy Physical Therapy in the Emergency Department Physical Therapy in Emergency Care: Research on the Value of Physical Therapy While physical therapist services in emergency care have
2024-02-28
Photography by Sam Murphy and Kevin Mohatt for Nature The science is building and viable treatments are available. But millions of people with chronic pain are still without help. This article is also available as a pdf version . Philip Kass spends 90% of his
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