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Chronic pain can be an overwhelming burden on your everyday life, interfering with even the simplest of your daily tasks. The toll can be both physical and mental, so you need an effective plan to keep pain under control.

With spring comes the urge to get outside and get in the game. Regardless of your sport, the change in season means changes in conditions that can lead to springtime sports injuries if you don’t prepare properly.

Without management, neuropathy can control your life. Nerves can suffer damage for a wide range of reasons causing numbness, pain, weakness, and more. But you can control symptoms to minimize their impact.

At the start of a new year, it’s tempting to adopt new practices and habits to improve your life, and living with less back pain is a resolution worth considering for its long-lasting benefits. Here are three ways you can work toward that goal. 

Osteoarthritis is the most common form of inflammatory joint disease, a wear-and-tear condition that breaks down cartilage and other tissue in the knee and other joints. In the knee, there’s a relationship between weight and OA symptoms.

Diabetes can sometimes take a heavy toll on the nerves of patients who’ve lived with uncontrolled blood glucose for extended periods. It’s called diabetic neuropathy, and it can make life with diabetes harder to manage. Physical therapy can help.

When you’re young, your body handles unbalanced postures with remarkable versatility. It’s with time and other changes that posture comes with regular reminders in the form of musculoskeletal pain.

Treating pain is often short-term to keep you comfortable as a condition or injury heals. When pain becomes chronic, time frames expand from months-long to indefinite, and effectively managing pain is far more challenging.

While most cases of back pain are temporary and resolve without surgery, pain can be disabling, particularly when it keeps you from working or tending to the normal tasks of your day-to-day life. Here’s how to get relief fast.

Chronic neck pain isn’t usually a medical emergency, but it can still have a major effect on your ability to function and your enjoyment of life. Here are five common causes for neck pain that lasts more than three months.

Do your feet feel funny? Perhaps they tingle or feel numb, or maybe there’s pain that feels like needles sticking into your feet. These are signs of neuropathy, the medical name for nerve damage, in your feet.

Lupus can take a toll on your musculoskeletal system, affecting bones, joints, and muscles in different ways. Lupus treatments may also carry side effects that rival symptoms of the disease.

Holistic medicine aims to achieve total wellness for a patient by incorporating conservative therapies to minimize the effects of both illness and treatment. But some holistic medicine practices can carry side effects. 

Up to 4% of the American population suffers from fibromyalgia, a chronic condition that produces pain throughout the body. Every patient has their own version of fibromyalgia, and pain management is the primary treatment.

Sometimes, hip problems are degenerative, making pain management an important part of your life. Conditions like osteoarthritis are with you for the long run and may lead to surgery, including total hip replacement. When is the right time?

Nearly 60 million Americans have some form of arthritis. It’s not a single ailment but rather a category of over 100 joint conditions and diseases, most of which are permanent and degenerative. Arthritis can’t be cured, but it can be managed.

The high blood sugar level in the system of a diabetic patient takes a toll on systems and tissue throughout the body. Neuropathic pain affects as many as half of all diabetics. Treatment manages pain and slows its progression. 

Back pain is one of the biggest causes of disability around the world. You may not know it, but bad habits could be making your back pain worse. It may be as easy as a few simple lifestyle changes to turn the corner.

Trigger points, commonly called muscle knots, are packets of scarring in a connective tissue called fascia, a thin covering around all muscles in your body. For chronic and severe trigger points, simple injections can provide relief.

Arthritis is the most common cause of knee pain, affecting millions worldwide. Hyaluronic acid joint injections can help relieve pain from knee arthritis by supplementing the natural fluid that lubricates joints. Here’s how it works.