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Lower Leg Pain: Causes and Treatments

Stretch your legs properly before you exercise, too. The muscles and flesh along the edge of the shin bone become inflamed, so it hurts to walk, ru...

Knee Pain Overview

Knee pain is the most common musculoskeletal complaint that brings people to their doctor. After an injury, substances that cause inflammation inva...

Heel Spurs and Plantar Fasciitis

The heel pain associated with heel spurs and plantar fasciitis may not respond well to rest. Heel pain may respond to treatment with over-the- coun...

Do I Have Chronic Pain?

Just about everyone feels pain from time to time. When you hurt yourself, the injury turns on pain sensors in that area. Both a lack of sleep and m...

Pain Types and Classifications

Chronic pain can be the result of damaged tissue, but very often is attributable to nerve damage. Pain is most often classified by the kind of dama...

Symptoms & Causes

Learn the most common causes of low back pain, symptoms that may require urgent care, and more. While it may begin with an injury or illness, pain ...

Types of Pain

Learn common causes of abdominal pain and when to contact your doctor. Learn about how chronic pain occurs, and why chronic pain sometimes lingers....

Pain Management: Osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis, or degenerative joint disease, is the most common type of arthritis. It is associated with the breakdown of a joint's cartilage. Ca...

Living & Managing

These need to be addressed along with the physical causes of pain. Chronic pain can cause some sexual problems.

Pain Clinics: what to Know

Also called pain management clinics, they're health care facilities that focus on the diagnosis and management of chronic pain.

Pain Management and Nerve Blocks

Nerve blocks are used for pain treatment and management. Although many kinds of nerve blocks exist, this treatment cannot always be used.

Opioid (Narcotic) Pain Medications

And your doctor may prescribe opioids to be taken 'as needed' in case you have 'breakthrough' pain -- a flare of pain that you get despite round-th...