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Coping With Arthritis Pain
Are you one of the millions of people who live with arthritis pain every day? Read this advice for coping with arthritis pain.
Arthritis: Chronic Joint Pain
Arthritis is one of the most common types of chronic pain, affecting all ages. Learn what causes it, how it is diagnosed and how to treat arthritis pain.
When Seniors Have Chronic Pain
Chronic pain can occur at any stage in your life, including the senior years. It is often harder to diagnose and treat chronic pain in seniors, but with care older adults can manage their chronic pain.
Chronic Pain Peer Advice
Some of the best coping strategies often come from people who have been there. A collection of tips and tricks from the readers of About Chronic Pain.
Living With Chronic Pain
Living with chronic pain can be challenging, especially when diagnosis and treatment are not immediately effective. In addition to medication, exercise, a healthy diet and counseling can help you cope with your pain.
Chronic Pain Treatment
Chronic pain can be difficult to treat because its cause is not always fully understood. Check out this guide to chronic pain treatments, including traditional and alternative approaches.
What Is Chronic Pain?
Chronic pain is pain that lasts longer than the expected healing time, and often has other non-painful effects as well. Chronic Pain can be hard to understand, and hard to treat.
Diagnosing Chronic Pain
Diagnosing chronic pain can take months or even years. Your doctor will want to rule out other possible causes for your pain using several kinds of tests, including blood analysis and imaging. Here is what you can expect.
Can You Rate Your Pain?
Ever wonder why your doctor wants you to give your pain a number? The most commonly used pain scales, and why you should be familiar with them.
How Do You Use a Pain Scale?
Using pain scales can be confusing and repetitive. How do you choose the right pain scale, and how do you use it correctly?
Fibromyalgia Pain
Fibromyalgia is one of the lesser understood types of chronic pain. Learn about fibromyalgia pain, how it is diagnosed and how to treat it.
Coping with Chronic Fibromyalgia Pain
Fibromyalgia is one of the more common types of chronic pain syndromes. Learn how you can cope with chronic fibromyalgia pain.
Chronic Back Pain
Chronic back pain is one of the most common types of chronic pain. Read what causes chronic back pain, how it is diagnosed and what you can do to treat it.
What Causes Chronic Back Pain?
Chronic back pain is one of the most common chronic pain conditions. What can cause it?
Coping With Chronic Back Pain
Don't let chronic back pain get you down! Here are a few simple things that can help you cope with chronic back pain.
What Does Nerve Pain Feel Like?
Chronic nerve pain has its own unique set of symptoms.
Coping With Chronic Neuropathic Pain
Learning to live with chronic pain is never easy. This can especially be true when that diagnosis is chronic nerve pain, a form that is notoriously difficult to treat.
Chronic Neuropathic Pain
Many people suffer from chronic nerve pain. Types, treatments and coping strategies for chronic nerve pain.
Chronic Nerve Pain Treatment
An overview of both medical and complimentary chronic nerve pain treatments.
Coping With Pelvic Pain
Pelvic pain is often hard to manage, but learning a few coping strategies can help you get it under control.
Opioid Withdrawal
Opioid withdrawal can cause many complications. How to stop taking opioids safely.
Common Types of Neuropathic Pain
Chronic neuropathic pain is caused by a disorder of the nervous system. Common types of neuropathic pain and their symptoms.
Causes of Chronic Neuropathic Pain
Chronic neuropathic pain can be caused by disease or damage. In some cases, the cause is a mystery. Common causes of chronic neuropathic pain.
How to Cope With Chronic Pain
Being in pain increases anxiety, which adds to feelings of depression and hopelessness. How to regain control of your chronic pain.
Yoga and Chronic Pain
An interview with Kelly McGonigal, author of Yoga for Pain Relief.