Sarno’s theory has met skepticism from the mainstream community, but glowing testimonies from patients who say they benefitted from his strategies fill the internet. Sarno wrote several books on his ...

If you have children, chances are good that when they get sick or injured you put on a favorite video, kiss their wound, rub their back, play a game or allow some extra screen time. Distraction and ...

Pain is our body’s way of telling us that something is wrong. When it’s acute, it tends to start suddenly, with an obvious cause (like a broken bone) and a standard fix. But chronic pain, experienced ...

As a chronic pain sufferer, I sometimes surprise people by telling them that my pain doesn’t have a physical cause. It’s a mind-body thing, I say, related to stress and emotions. To many, this sounds ...

Approximately 20 million adults are affected by high-impact chronic pain. People generally think of pain as a purely physical sensation, but it is just as important to address its psychological impact ...

When I prolapsed a disc in my spine in the middle of a bench press back in medical school, pain became a persistent presence in my life, and I feared that my injury would end my nascent career as a ...

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling, responsible for getting Frasier back on TV and creating a market for $100 Green Day tickets. Wistful sentimentality about the past can help protect one from the ...

The amount of physical activity someone with chronic pain does depends far more on how well they cope with pain (their resilience) than how much pain they’re actually in. A study of 172 adults with ...

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These three techniques can help people suffering from persistent pain, research shows Poor sleep is a consequence of chronic ...