Strong back muscles can help reduce pain, increase mobility, and improve posture. These at-home exercises can help you start ...

If you have back or joint pain, there are probably some times when all you want to do is lie in bed all day. It’s tempting, but it might make the problem worse. Doctors used to prescribe bed rest for ...

New research has found that the benefits of graded sensorimotor retraining are likely to be similar for all patients with ...

Physical activity stimulates the release of endorphins (natural painkillers) and promotes the production of anti-inflammatory compounds that help reduce inflammation. Exercise also combats pain by ...

Adults younger than age 45 with chronic, nonspecific lower back pain saw significant pain relief with a structured run-walk program in a randomized trial. At the end of 12 weeks, participants in the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Evidence of long-term effectiveness is particularly important for patients with chronic, fluctuating low back ...

A lot of back and leg pain can be traced to your hips, which are critical to almost every move you make. These mobility and ...

Stiff knees, aching hips, and the slow grind of chronic joint pain are often accepted as an unavoidable part of getting older ...

Whether it’s a dull, underlying ache in your spine or a piercing stab, chronic back pain affects roughly 1 in 4 Americans. UC San Francisco’s Prasad Shirvalkar, MD, Ph.D, neurologist and pain medicine ...

Chronic back pain is the most common type of pain, affecting around 16 million American adults — and now a new study has revealed some discouraging findings about potential treatments. Only around one ...

Has your chronic pain led you into a vicious cycle of worsening health? Here’s how that has happened for many people, according to a 2020 study of older adults (average age 65) with knee ...