| | | | |  | |  | People who have a strong social network feel less pain and anxiety before having surgery than their more isolated peers, according to a new study in VA patients. This translates to less pain and anxiety after the operation, less use of pain medication, and fewer days spent in the hospital, researchers report... | |  | In an excellent commentary in the North Carolina Medical Journal, rheumatologist John B. Winfield, MD. observes how pain patients are often "punted" from the primary care physician to a pain clinic, back to the PCP, then finally to a rheumatologist. In an effort to help physicians treat chronic pain patients and prevent patients from being passed around like a football, Dr. Winfield offers physicians five suggestions... | |  | Regular exercise in a heated swimming pool can benefit people with the common, painful condition fibromyalgia, a new study suggests. The study included 33 women with fibromyalgia -- 17 did supervised one-hour exercise sessions in a heated pool three times a week for eight months, while the other 16 did no aquatic training. The researchers found that... |
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New research suggests that strength training may ease chronic neck and shoulder pain, a problem that has grown increasingly common as people spend more time on computers. -
People who take more than one nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) may have poorer health-related quality of life, a U.S. study suggests. -
The largest study of its kind concludes that surgery is better than nonsurgical treatments for spinal stenosis, a painful narrowing of the spine that stems from the normal deterioration that accompanies aging. -
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