Be sure to examine your feet daily if you are feeling nerve pain there. By Hallie Levine. ... MD, an assistant professor of ...

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

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.

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.” ...

Muscle pain is far more common than nerve pain, Tankha says. "But it's difficult to differentiate between the two — even for physicians — because there's overlap in terms of how they feel," he ...

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.

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...