Getting the Best Treatment for Your Fibromyalgia

Getting the Best Treatment for Your Fibromyalgia

Imagine being in pain and none of your doctors can find a clear reason for it. Unfortunately, this is not…

Working from Home Can Be a Real Pain

Working from Home Can Be a Real Pain

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed just about everything in our lives, including the drastic increase in working from home. It’s…

The Perils of Pain

The Perils of Pain

Searching for new solutions to chronic suffering Pain — ongoing, chronic pain that plagues us day after day — can…

Pain and Mental Health

Pain and Mental Health

When chronic pain strikes, depression and anxiety can follow Chronic pain is more than a physical problem. Those who suffer…

Unexplained abdominal pain could be a pinched nerve

Unexplained abdominal pain could be a pinched nerve

The Medicine Cabinet: Ask the Harvard Experts  Q: I have been struggling with a persistent pain on the right side…

Technology Can Put Your Neck on the Line

Technology Can Put Your Neck on the Line

Collectively, Americans check their smartphones over 8 billion times per day. And young adults age 18 to 24 send or…

Creative Shoe Lacing Helps Ease Foot Pain

Creative Shoe Lacing Helps Ease Foot Pain

The Medicine Cabinet: Ask the Harvard Experts Q: I just bought my third pair of gym shoes, and none of…

Music can be good medicine

Music can be good medicine

Jan Stouffer, who works as a board certified music therapist at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, uses…

Diet can impact migraines

Diet can impact migraines

Eliminating that morning cup of joe, consuming processed foods high in nitrites or monosodium glutamate (MSG), and enjoying too much…

Chronic pain: The ‘invisible’ disability

Chronic pain: The ‘invisible’ disability

Sometime back in 2010, a good friend of mine from college who had since become a pediatrician posted a complaint…

Ask the Harvard Experts: Seeking relief for morning foot pain

Ask the Harvard Experts: Seeking relief for morning foot pain

The Medicine Cabinet Q: Every morning when I get up my right foot hurts so much that I can hardly…

How to banish aches and pains

How to banish aches and pains

Harvard Health Letter Is your back bothering you? Do your hamstrings hurt? Is your neck or shoulder sore? If so,…

Ask the Harvard Experts: Trapped nerves can happen in many sites

Ask the Harvard Experts: Trapped nerves can happen in many sites

By Howard LeWine, M.D. Q: What is a trapped nerve? How does it happen? A: The term “trapped nerve” refers…

Health Mastery

Health Mastery

Pain: A Love Message from the Body of You Dear Self: I would like to address your so-misunderstood and overlooked sensation…

Where Does It Hurt?

Where Does It Hurt?

Untreated or mistreated chronic pain can lead to the pangs of depression By Morgan Lord When Bill Lipscomb, 60, was in…

Pinpointing cause of lower back pain first step toward relief

Pinpointing cause of lower back pain first step toward relief

Source: Harvard Health Letter Lower back pain is among the most common complaints of older age. The lumbar or lower…

When Everything Hurts

When Everything Hurts

Diagnosis and treatment of fibromyalgia are often elusive By Nancy Maes Diagnosing this disease isn’t easy. It usually takes years, following…

Critical Questions to Ask Your Doctor About Back Pain

Critical Questions to Ask Your Doctor About Back Pain

1. Should I change my daily activities or exercise routine? 2. Are there positions or activities I should avoid at work…

Navigating Back Pain

Navigating Back Pain

The spine is, arguably, the most important structure in the human body. It is an extension of the brain, a…