I was no stranger to back pain. In my early forties, I had three episodes of severe lumbar pain, lasting several weeks each. Lumbar is just the word doctors use for “low back.” An MRI showed ...

A student who put her leg pain down to “learning how to drive” was diagnosed with a rare cancer — after a 10cm tumor was discovered in her thigh. 20-year-old Immy had just started driving lessons in ...

Granted, pain thresholds vary among us, but when we arrive at our own, how do we deal with it? The most readily available responses are anger, blaming and resentment. It’s convenient to have someone ...

Ms. B, a 44-year-old, left-handed welder, was referred to our occupational medicine clinic by a local ER for follow-up treatment. Three days earlier, a loose thermocouple in her welding apparatus ...

A 70-year-old Korean-born man calls in on Monday morning to make an appointment for an evaluation of acute joint pain, which started yesterday. He is in a significant amount of pain and would like to ...

Powerful moments and quotes, including ‘Pain is just pain.’ from 'Dopestick' and ‘Fight every battle.’ from 'Game Of Thrones’ ...

Try these all-natural ways to treat what ails you. Chronic pain affects 116 million American adults. That's more than a third of the U.S. population. \ While pain pills reduce suffering, they can be ...

In my last blog, Life Lessons Learned from Being Temporarily Disabled, I promised to disclose what I learned about sex from being temporarily disabled. It is with some trepidation that I now fulfill ...