People hospitalized for a debilitating migraine should receive targeted nerve blocks rather than IV opioids, new treatment ...

Researchers discovered that nerve injuries can alter the immune system throughout the body, and males and females react very ...

A pinched nerve in the lower back happens when nearby tissue or bone compresses a nerve in the lower part of the spine. Symptoms of a pinched nerve in the lower back include pain, numbness, burning, ...

For infants undergoing cleft palate surgery, local anesthetic injection targeting the maxillary nerve of the face may reduce ...

A pinched nerve can be very painful—no matter where it’s located in your body. If you experience one in your back, it can travel to other parts of the body and cause sharp pain, tingling, numbness, or ...

Here’s what to know about how common bottom-of-foot pain is, why it happens and the most reliable ways to find relief.

Almost everyone has pain sometimes. It might start as a twinge in your back, a dull ache in your knee, a tingling on the bottoms of your feet. Maybe you slept funny, or hoisted a full bag of groceries ...

New research from McGill University suggests that nerve injuries don’t just hurt the affected area, they can trigger hidden ...

Dr Ben Jonker loves treating people with trigeminal neuralgia – a condition that has been described as the “suicide disease”.

The body experiences a lot of physical changes during pregnancy. As your baby grows, your body has to adjust. Sometimes that leads to unfamiliar aches and pains. A common issue for pregnant women is ...

D uring a recent silent retreat, I came across a poem by Symeon the New Theologian, an 11th-century Eastern Orthodox monk.

Chemists have long been fascinated and frustrated by saxitoxin: a molecule that causes temporary paralysis by blocking the ...