Chronic low back pain significantly affects quality of life for millions of people worldwide. Back pain makes it difficult to ...

As much as we’d like to tell you that pain is just the French word for bread, we know that chronic pain conditions are nothing to joke about. From slipped discs to autoimmune diseases which cause ...

Among the myriad of medical treatments for low back pain—a leading cause of disability that affects more than 600 million ...

Back decompression aims to relieve back pain by taking pressure off compressed spinal discs. There are surgical and nonsurgical methods of back decompression. Nonsurgical therapy includes spinal ...

Florida Atlantic University researchers conducted a pilot study that uncovered a treatment for back pain people may not have considered. The treatment called Qigong (pronounced “chee-gong”) is a ...

Several exercise machines may exacerbate lower back pain if a person does not use proper form, or if they have pre-existing back conditions. A person can discuss alternatives with a physical therapist ...

Part 5 of a five-part USA TODAY series exploring chronic pain, the challenges of treatment and the scientific advances offering hope for the future. Steven Pete knows what it feels like for a knife to ...