Living with aches and stiffness caused by osteoarthritis, Tamara Walker feared pain would take over her life and force her to give up the career she loved. Since she'd been diagnosed with arthritis in ...

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 ...

Nurse Rod Salaysay works with all kinds of instruments in the hospital: a thermometer, a stethoscope and sometimes his guitar and ukulele. In the recovery unit of UC San Diego Health, Salaysay helps ...

About six weeks ago, after my weekly pickleball league, I awoke to a stabbing pain in my right heel. I'd had knee pain, a jammed thumb, and other ouchies from my favorite sport, but never this. And it ...

One day, when I was 19 years old, I swung my legs out of bed and felt a twinge in my lower back. It didn't seem like that big of a deal, but within two weeks, I was having trouble walking. Later, I ...

Does your back often hurt? Thirty-nine percent of adults and 45 percent of people ages 65 and older said in a survey that they had back pain in the previous three months, according to a 2021 report ...

For years, Terri Nielson struggled with chronic migraines. The pain was so bad, it made it difficult to do basic daily tasks. She tried fix after fix, but relief felt out of reach until she stumbled ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s new book, “It Doesn’t Have to Hurt,” is available now. Watch “Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: It Doesn’t Have to Hurt.” at 9 p.m. ET on ...

Researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology and University of Washington are harnessing the power of interactive media and clinical hypnosis to help people manage pain without drugs. The team ...

Once used mainly for distraction, VR is now being studied as a way to retrain the brain’s pain pathways—especially for people with chronic and hard-to-treat conditions. Virtual reality isn’t just for ...