Researchers are developing promising suppression systems for painful conditions—even an app on your phone that turns the pain ...

Nerve pain refers to painful sensations around the nerves. Various treatment options are available, including anticonvulsants, certain antidepressants, mild opioids, and some topical treatments ...

Sciatica is pain that starts in your lower back and shoots down through your legs. It usually happens when something, such as a herniated disk or bone spur, presses on your sciatic nerve.

In some cases, a pinched nerve in the upper back can cause chest pain. However, upper back pinched nerves are less common than those that occur in the neck or lower back.

Neuropathic pain is often described as a shooting or burning pain. It can go away on its own but is often chronic. Sometimes it is unrelenting and severe, and sometimes it comes and goes.

The cause and symptoms of neuropathy, or nerve damage, can help determine the best way to treat it. Some examples of therapy for neuropathy include OTC and prescription medication, antidepressants ...

strain injury, the condition which afflicts as many as 200,000 people in Britain. Doctors at University College, London, have found that sufferers have loss of movement in a major nerve in the ...

Medicine: Pain: Search for Understanding and Relief. 12 minute read. TIME. ... As long ago as 1826, Johannes Peter Müller promulgated the “law of specific nerve energies.” ...

Men and women experience pain differently, and until now, scientists didn’t know why. New research says it may be in part due to differences in male and female nerve cells.

Nerve or neuropathic pain has long been a tricky condition to treat effectively. However, a new study has comprehensively evaluated current drug and non-drug therapies to provide up-to-date ...