Not all chronic pain is the same. Learn how to identify the type you have—and discover which treatments, including ...

Nerve or neuropathic pain has long been a tricky condition to treat effectively. However, a new study has comprehensively ...

A major international study has provided the most comprehensive evidence to date on treatments for neuropathic pain—defined ...

Examples may include: People can also use these pain medications to treat intercostal neuralgia that develops due to shingles, physical nerve irritation, or an unknown cause. Also, when a person ...

Neuropathic pain, defined as pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system, does not act as a signal to warn the body of damage as acute pain does, and thus it does not have a ...

Background Best current estimates of neuropathic pain (NeuP) prevalence come from studies using various screening detecting pain with probable neuropathic features; the proportion experiencing ...

Chronic pain, a common and debilitating condition, often leads practitioners to prescribe opioids in escalating doses.