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If you are living with chronic pain and are unsure how the COVID-19 pandemic may affect you, here is what you need to know, and what you can do now to find long-term relief. Chronic pain sufferers may be in a high-risk group when it comes to COVID-19.

It can be difficult to maintain your energy levels during the winter months. It’s important to keep up your motivation in winter. Managing chronic pain is important year-round, but particularly difficult in the winter months. Hopefully applying a few of these tips will help you control the pain in the coldest weather.

If you live with chronic pain, you know how challenging it can be to perform simple chores and everyday functions. The thought of adding the holiday “stuff” too can be daunting. It can really put a damper on what could be a wonderful holiday season.

Neuropathic pain is caused by damage or injury to the nerves that transfer information between the brain and spinal cord from the skin, muscles and other parts of the body.

Chronic pain, or pain that lasts for more than 12 weeks, is common among the approximately 20 million veterans in the United States today. More than 50% of veterans receiving care at Veterans Health Administration (VHA) facilities across the country are affected by the condition.

The study shows the potential for skill-based, CBT interventions delivered by frontline clinicians to reduce pain impact and improve function among patients with chronic pain receiving long-term opioid treatment.

Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a form of chronic pain. Typically developed after an injury, stroke, heart attack or surgery, CRPS usually affects a leg or arm.

You pain management physician will work with you to find the right balance of medication for your pain, with the least possible side effects. That said, your doctor will also work with you to manage any consequences of your medication. Talk to your physician about your pain, the medications they would like to prescribe, the meds you are taking and your goals for treatment.

Pain not only affects one’s physical, emotional, and mental states, but it can also affect a person’s memory and concentration.

If you suffer from chronic pain and obesity, talk to your physician about options and alternatives for your care. Look at treatments that are co-productive, rather than counterproductive.

The hepatitis C virus (HCV) often does not always cause symptoms, but if the infection becomes chronic, it can cause complications over time. One of these is joint inflammation and pain. How does hepatitis C cause chronic joint pain and what are the treatment options?

Radiofrequency ablation is an attempt to give patients longer, sustained relief of that painful area. As with any invasive procedure, there are risks and potential complications, but RFA is considered a low risk procedure.

Doctors recommend pain treatment based on the cause, location and severity of a patient’s pain. The following are common treatments for cancer-related pain.

More than 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. experience chronic pain. Here are the statistics surrounding chronic pain in America.

Having a chronic condition diagnosis is hard enough. It is even more challenging to go through all of this every day, yet be denied a concrete diagnosis. It can be exhausting and you can feel like giving up. However, you are not alone.

Mirror pain is considered fairly common. Your body, in response to your injury and all the circumstances surrounding that, calls upon the nervous and immune systems — systems that are meant to look after you — to provide you with a bit more protection, double the protection message.

In my practice, I hear all too often how long a patient has gone, from doctor to doctor to doctor, looking for an answer but leaving without a diagnosis. Whether that patient goes 4 months or 5 years without an answer, it is too long. Why is it that patients struggle to find an answer, especially to symptoms of severe pain?

In a person with a chronic pain disorder, there is benefit to be had from stress and pain management care. Doing so can help to prevent increased long-term pain impairment.