Physical activity is one of the most effective ways to manage chronic pain. It might sound counterintuitive—after all, how can moving more help when you’re already hurting? But studies show that ...
Abdominal pain is considered chronic if it lasts for more than three months. The pain may be constant or it can come and go over the three-month period or longer. There are many health conditions, ...
More than 30 percent of adults in the U.S. are living with chronic or severe pain. If you’re part of that statistic, you know how devastating living with severe or daily pain can be. Treating ...
Soft tissue injuries heal in a few weeks. Chronic pain has never been produced by experimental injury and is much less common in countries without financial payments for accident victims.
Fibromyalgia (FMS) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS ... using two questionnaires that assess pain and symptom severity: the Widespread Pain Index (WPI) and the Symptom Severity Scale (SSS). The SSS ...
We have studied 22 consecutive patients referred for investigation of severe chronic right upper quadrant pain. The majority were women whose symptoms had been present for many years. All had ...