I was no stranger to back pain. In my early forties, I had three episodes of severe lumbar pain, lasting several weeks each. Lumbar is just the word doctors use for “low back.” An MRI showed ...

Try these all-natural ways to treat what ails you. Chronic pain affects 116 million American adults. That's more than a third of the U.S. population. \ While pain pills reduce suffering, they can be ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 70-year-old Korean-born man calls in on Monday morning to make an appointment for an evaluation of acute joint ...

You never forget the first time a doctor gives up: when they tell you that they don’t know what to do—they have no further tests to run, no treatments to offer—and that you’re on your own. It happened ...

My 34-year-old son was home recently and as we were reminiscing. I reminded him of a life lesson he learned 30 years prior. I even had video proof of two seminal moments to show him that although my ...

Even though researchers disagree on its effectiveness for lower back pain, they consider transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) safe with a low risk of complications. Learn where to place ...

Since childhood, I have suffered from severe stabbing headaches. Then in my first year of medical school, during anatomy lab, as we peeled back the scalp of our donated cadaver, I saw a nerve poking ...