An injection that relieves low back pain by helping damaged spinal discs regenerate appears to have sustained benefits, new clinical trial data show. Most patients who received an injection of VIA ...

For this study they conducted a meta-analysis of 81 trials involving a total of nearly 8,000 participants. They looked at the differences between sham injections and medically prescribed injections ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 75-year-old male and have had pain in my buttocks down to my outside thigh muscles. My primary care doctor ordered an MRI of the lower back and referred me to an orthopedic ...

Below is a brief description of sickle cell disease and the populations most affected by it. SCD is a genetic blood disorder that affects the structure and function of red blood cells. In individuals ...

I spent a chunk of my career as a foreign correspondent, and another telling war stories. Touring the front lines in Ethiopia’s war with Eritrea. Running from tear gas during street protests in Seoul ...

The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) has developed a new systematic review to summarize for neurologists and other clinicians the evidence for epidural steroid injections and whether they reduce ...

Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and several other institutions say they have developed a quick clinical test that predicts which people with neck pain are more likely to benefit from epidural ...

McMINNVILLE, Tenn. — Each month, Michelle Shaw went to a pain clinic to get the shots that made her back feel worse — so she could get the pills that made her back feel better. Shaw, 56, who has been ...

Champion Health System leads the way in non-surgical joint pain treatments with groundbreaking procedures like Genicular ...

They found that botulinum toxin injections provided greater short-term relief for "phantom" limb pain than standard medical and surgical care. The team says the study, which involved 160 amputees ...