As a psoriatic arthritis patient, describing your pain to your doctor is not always easy. Many patients have spent years bouncing from their general physician to different specialists, only to have ...
Where do you turn to for help when your back surgery fails to provide pain relief or improved functioning? Do you elect to undergo more surgery? From 1998 to 2008, the number of low-back surgeries in ...
I don’t have many memories of the two days I spent in the hospital following my double mastectomy last year. But one that does stand out is me repeatedly begging the nurses to do something about my ...
How do the normal pains of everyday life, such as headaches and backaches, influence our ability to think? Recent studies suggest that healthy individuals in pain also show deficits in working memory ...
When Dr. Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen needs to explain pain, he often talks about David Beckham. Back in 2010, Beckham tore his Achilles in an AC Milan game and cameras caught a lesson in the weird ways that ...
Where do you turn to for help when your back surgery fails to provide pain relief or improved functioning? Do you elect to undergo more surgery? From 1998 to 2008, the number of low-back surgeries in ...