Osteoarthritis affects millions of people worldwide, serving as one of the most common causes of chronic disability as we age. This debilitating joint condition develops when the protective cartilage ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. From stubbing your toe to dealing with the occasional headache or sore back, to ...

Hany Demian, MD, MBBCH, CCFP, is CEO of Praesentia Healthcare LLC, comprising BioSpine Institute, Ontario’s Pain Care Clinics and AlfaScan. Pain is often the first indicator of a problem and the first ...

A guitarist in a death metal band was one of several people who found that personalized deep brain stimulation eased their pain and helped them reduce pain medication. A guitarist in a death metal ...

Megan Hodge’s first bout of intense pain arrived when she was in her mid-20s. Hodge and her husband were getting ready to visit family for Thanksgiving. Though Hodge had been dealing with a variety of ...

Wearing a cast, taking pain medication and getting a warning to be more careful often puts people on the quickest road to recovery from a broken arm. But that road can be longer when an ailment isn’t ...

Nearly a whopping 67 percent of people will experience shoulder pain or discomfort at some point in their life, according to one study available at the National Center for Biotechnology Information.