September is Pain Awareness Month, and more than 51 million Americans report living with chronic pain. Over the past couple of decades, experts say increased prescriptions of opioid medications were ...

Once used mainly for distraction, VR is now being studied as a way to retrain the brain’s pain pathways—especially for people ...

Researchers are exploring a new way to influence pain in the brain so that patients no longer need to rely on medication.

University of Florida esearchers learned that people who had healthier lifestyle behaviors were more likely to have a younger ...

Chronic pain—pain which lasts 3-6 months or more—affects 1 in 5 adults globally. Medication, steroid injections, and other common medical treatments for chronic pain have limited efficacy, as well as ...

Researchers have created an effective therapy for chronic pain that reduces pain intensity by focusing on emotional regulation. A new study led by UNSW Sydney and Neuroscience Research Australia ...

Chronic pain can be debilitating and frustrating, especially among aging adults. While physical remedies and treatments can provide some relief, experts have found that shifting one's mindset — or the ...

What if the key to reducing your chronic pain was not in tackling the symptoms, but in regulating your emotions? A recent study shows that retraining your brain to deescalate negative emotions and ...

But Bongiorno wasn’t asking for drugs — she simply wanted help. For two years, Bongiorno, 54, had been living with pain that she describes as a deep burning sensation far worse than kidney stones or ...

Medically reviewed by Lindsay Cook, PharmD Vitamin D helps keep the bones and muscles healthy. Omega-3 fatty acids support a healthy heart and improve the function of the immune system. Combining the ...

A new study from researchers at the University of Florida examined brain aging in a group of middle-aged and older adults, many of whom had chronic pain. ‘Brain age’ refers to how old the brain ...