Chronic pain can result from nervous-system overload that creates physical symptoms in response to repressed emotions, therapist Nicole Sachs says.

FreePik Living with chronic pain can feel like a daily battle against your own body. Whether it’s the unrelenting throb of ...

The analysis found NSAIDs effective for acute low back pain vs. placebo, while non-drug treatments showed no significant ...

In some cases, acute pain may transition into chronic pain, which is ongoing or recurrent pain that typically lasts 3 months or longer. There are several potential causes of acute pain ...

Researchers at Zhejiang University found that acute stress increases natural repair mechanisms in the brain, while chronic ...

Chronic pain is not like pain from an injury. It has a different cause and a different treatment. Chronic pain often arises from the brain, while injury pain comes from damaged tissue in the body ...

The researchers used data from studies conducted between 2013–2023 that included 347,468 adult patients with chronic pain ...

Chronic pain is defined as pain that persists beyond acute pain, typically over six months. It can be initiated with an injury or disease, but may persist after the triggering injury has healed.

and chronic pain is the most prevalent chronic illness. Our health care system is built mainly on an acute-care model, which, in itself, poses barriers to the treatment of chronic conditions like ...

Among adults with chronic pain, people with certain types of pain are more vulnerable to depression and anxiety.

Acute pancreatitis ... causes pain in the upper abdominal (or epigastric) region. The pain often radiates to your back. AP can also involve other organs. It can also develop into chronic ...