Pain management was the fourth most common specialty in ambulatory surgery centers with 17 percent of overall case volume, according to VMG Health’s Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2011. Using ...

The lead researcher on a new study about pain treatment found that the presence and level of severity of pain symptom clusters affects treatment, Pain Medicine News reported. David Fishbain, MD, ...

Both myofascial pain syndrome and fibromyalgia cause muscular pain. However, myofascial pain syndrome causes pain in certain areas, compared with fibromyalgia, which causes pain throughout the body.

Whether it's a dull, underlying ache in your spine or a piercing stab, chronic back pain affects roughly one in four Americans. UC San Francisco's Prasad Shirvalkar, MD, Ph.D., neurologist and pain ...