In recent years, advances in imaging have made acupuncture’s once-hidden effects increasingly visible. High-field fMRI scans ...

Chronic back pain is the most common type of pain, affecting around 16 million American adults — and now a new study has revealed some discouraging findings about potential treatments. Only around one ...

Pain management has come a long way in the last 20 years. Some in the industry, myself included, are cautiously optimistic that we’ve stepped into a new era. The old model — “an opioid for almost ...

Dr. Amy Baxter says you can’t just shut down pain with a pill. But we’re not helpless either — by understanding how pain works, we can use various other treatments to get some relief. Dr. Amy Baxter ...

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 ...

Back pain is common. One in thirteen people have it right now and worldwide a staggering 619 million people will have it this year. Chronic pain, of which back pain is the most common, is the world’s ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney have used placebo pain relief to uncover a map-like system in the brainstem that controls pain differently depending on where it's felt in the body. The ...

The graduate student bears down on my arm with a force akin to a firm handshake. This pressure might not seem like much, but when concentrated on a patch of skin roughly the size of a small coin, the ...

In the second world war, the physician Henry Beecher observed that some of his soldier patients, despite being injured on the battlefield, required no strong painkillers to manage their pain. In some ...

For decades, scientists believed that one of the world’s most common painkillers, acetaminophen — also known as paracetamol and sold under brand names including Tylenol and Panadol – relieved ...

New research finds the human brain has a built-in pain map that activates in different areas when relieving face, arm or leg pain. But placebo pain relief only works where the brain expects it.