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SACRAMENTO ? How much pain osteoarthritis sufferers feel is directly related to their mental health, a new study by researchers at UC Davis School of Medicine has found. In the study, people with better mental health felt less pain, and people with worse mental health felt more.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Two pain management clinics in town are being raided by the Drug Enforcement Administration this morning.

Almost every triathlete has experienced back pain at one time or another. Whether it is a chronic ache in the neck following a long ride, tightness between the shoulder blades with swimming or sharp pain in the low back during a run, pain inhibits our training, limits our performance and frustrates us?and probably any family [...]

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — Icagen, Inc. today provided an update on its sodium channel program for pain and related disorders, which is being conducted in collaboration with Pfizer.

Multiple studies have shown that patients with back pain who receive thrust spinal manipulation by their physical therapist and therapist-guided exercises need less medicine, less health care, and miss less work. According to highly regarded research published by the Austin-based spine experts at Texas Physical Therapy Specialists, the most important factors for success were back pain less than …

New study finds the ’severity of the arthritis diminished as the frequency of alcohol consumption increased’

A writer once described tight end Jimmie Giles of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as having a Mack truck body and Corvette speed. He ran the 40-yard dash in 4.45 seconds, remarkable for a 245-pound man

Six former cocktail waitresses say the Sin City strip club takes its name way too literally. A class-action suit filed today accuses bosses at the Bronx jiggle joint of a host of moral outrages, ranging from crude come-ons to physical and sexual abuse. The Manhattan federal court filing seeks unspecified…

BEREA ? This will be a unique training camp for Mike Holmgren. And not just because his right foot in is an orange cast following surgery to ease longtime joint pain under his big toe. For the first time in his 23-year NFL career, Holmgren doesn?t enter the season as a coach. He?s Browns presi­dent, and that [...]

Patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee or hip who adhere to the recommended home physical therapy exercises and physically active lifestyle experience more improvement in pain, physical function, and self-perceived effect according to a study from researchers in The Netherlands. Research also shows that maintenance of exercise behavior and physically active lifestyle after discharge of …