Spinal cord stimulators have been used since the 1960s, and the first FDA approval for one of the devices arrived in 1989—all with a focus on treating various forms of chronic pain. In more recent ...

Adults hospitalized for ischemic stroke who started gabapentin within 30 days of discharge often received a gabapentin prescription for at least a year, an analysis of Medicare claims showed. Among ...

TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of Texas Tech Health El ...

More than half of patients report having pain several months after stroke, and this group has a significantly elevated risk of death at 1 year. Investigators conducted a registry-based cohort study of ...

Researchers at Duke University School of Medicine may have uncovered a surprising new strategy for treating chronic nerve ...

New pain psychotherapies, based on a new understanding of pain neuroscience, offer new possibilities of pain relief.

Various conditions can lead to carotid artery neck pain. For instance, some people experience carotidynia, which is inflammation of the blood vessels. Carotid artery dissection can also cause pain in ...