Pain Management News & Features
- Alternative Treatments for Chronic Pain
If you have chronic pain and are looking for alternatives to medication and surgery, you have a lot of options. Alternative pain treatments that doctors once scoffed at are now standard at many pain centers.
- Using the Pain Scale: How to Talk About Pain
To get good control of your chronic pain, it's not enough to tell your doctor it hurts. You need to learn how to talk about pain: how it feels, how it rates on a pain scale, and how it affects you.
- Visiting the ER for Chronic Pain
What can you do to help the ER doctor to believe you? Read on.
- Prescription Painkiller Addiction: 7 Myths
Pain and addiction experts debunk myths about prescription pain medication addiction.
- 8 Ways Your Doctor Can Help You With OTC Drugs
Use OTC pain relievers and other medications safely with this advice from experts.
- Savvy Shopping Tips for OTC Medicines
WebMD offers tips on shopping for over-the-counter medications that will help you make smart, safe choices at the drug store.
- Acetaminophen Safety: FAQ
Questions and and answers about acetaminophen, liver risks, and what the FDA is doing about it.
- Actress Shailene Woodley Takes Scoliosis in Stride
Actor Shailene Woodley shares her story of how she copes with scoliosis.
- Take the Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Chronic Pain?
Is it all in your head? A normal part of aging? Test yourself: Questions and answers about chronic pain
- OxyContin: Pain Relief vs. Abuse
Experts discuss whether worries over the abuse of OxyContin are having an impact on the drug's legitimate use as a painkiller.
- Chronic Pain Relief: New Treatments
New advances in drugs and technology mean there are now better solutions for chronic pain relief.
- Pain Relief & Breakthrough Pain
If you're experiencing breakthrough pain, new fast-acting narcotics may offer control -- and pain relief.
- 7 Myths About Cancer Pain
Following are common cancer myths and the facts about cancer pain.
- Is Chronic Pain on the Rise?
Chronic pain relief becomes critical as baby boomers age. What can you do about your chronic pain?
- Chronic Pain: Integrative Treatments
Clinics and programs with a multidisciplinary, or comprehensive, approach to pain management are becoming more popular as people reject the traditional pill-and-surgery model of treating pain because they find it's not always effective.
- Everyday Pain Relief: High Blood Pressure
Many over-the-counter pain relief drugs aren't safe for those who have high blood pressure. Here's what you need to know about aspirin, ibuprofen, and other drugs.
- Pain Relief Without Pills
If you're a pain sufferer, here's some good news: Plenty of options exist to ease aches, and many of them don't come in pill form.
- Boomer Pain Booming
As America's baby boomers age and more of them develop chronic illnesses, pain management will continue to be an important facet of health care.
