Stem cell therapy may help heal pained areas of your body.

You can resolve the gap between your current health situation and the life you want.

The traditional approach to easing chronic pain is a failing solution. Medical marijuana is proving to be a viable alternative.

Americans consume more pain medication than any other nation. Why?

Learn some tips for navigating migraines.

Have less pain and move easier as you age, learn what the Alexander Technique is, and discover the right way to sit for better posture and more form with Mary Derbyshire.

Medical foods can help you handle your acute and chronic pain without the side effects associated with pharmaceuticals.

How can you bring intimacy back to your relationship when you're struggling with chronic pain?

In his book, Heal Your Pain Now, Dr. Joe Tatta teaches you how to regain control of your life by breaking the cycle of persistent pain.

Chronic pain may be caused by factors beyond just damaged tissue.

Living with chronic back pain, when even the smallest movement is agony, can be debilitating.

An opioid epidemic sweeps the nation affecting tens of thousands of young males, those with their whole lives ahead of them. Policy makers feel impelled to do something, anything to curb the tide, and so they act.

The year was 1914. The primary policy was the Harrison Act. As a result of this act, physicians who prescribed more opioid than what was deemed reasonable faced loss of license and criminal prosecution. 

The patient in pain became someone to be feared and avoided at all costs. Out of a sense of self-preservation, physicians chose to view chronic pain as merely a character flaw, something not worthy of attention. 

But, there was more… 

Because of this act and subsequent interpretations by the Supreme Court, those addicted to opioids and other drugs became criminals.

Millions of people have been harmed by this act, unnecessarily, and are still being harmed.

About 100 million Americans, one in three people, suffer from ongoing pain that impacts their daily lives. Chronic pain has fueled a pain treatment crisis resulting in the over-prescribing of risky opioids. 

The tragic deaths of celebrities such as Prince have brought the issue to public awareness in a way that statistics can’t. 

The CDC recently recommended prescribers drastically limit opioids for pain; even for pain after surgery. This is a dire situation for patients who desperately need ways to relieve their short- and long-term pain without dangerous medications. 

The most frequently overlooked pathway to pain relief is the patient.

There are powerful cognitive behavioral skills that the everyday patient can begin putting to immediate use for personal pain relief. Calming your nervous system is the key to reduction of pain, distress, and suffering. 

Keep reading to learn practical tips for using your brain to calm pain work over time to reduce pain naturally.

Many of my patients tell me that they can’t be active because of arthritis. This leads to a domino effect of decreased activity, increased weight, and finally, worsening pain. 

Arthritis does not mean that an active lifestyle must be stopped. Rather, a diagnosis of arthritis should be looked at as an invitation to change your routine and explore new stretching and exercise options that will allow you to stay fit while reducing the pain triggered by your osteoarthritis. 

There is no doubt that the pain can become severe at times. However, the right amount of exercise along with the right type of exercise can actually help ease the pain and discomfort.

Pain is a massive problem that affects 125 million Americans who are spending close to $300 billion on pills, pot, procedures and natural remedies to find relief. These numbers are fueling a national conversation about pain relief and how it should be addressed.

With September being Pain Awareness Month, it’s a good time to exam why our bodies experience pain and other options for relief.

When you are in pain, the normal reaction for most people is to reach for the first thing that can help make that pain dissipate. Patients in pain are often looking for quick relief and frequently ask their doctor for a painkiller. It’s really important that doctors take the time to assess the root cause of the patient’s pain and explore the best protocol for immediate and long-term relief.

Pain is your body’s way of alerting you to an underlying problem that needs to be resolved, not masked. There are diet and lifestyle changes as well as natural remedies that can help pain sufferers get relief from some of the three most common pain complaints and reduce reliance on certain medications that have potential side effects.

Technology has many benefits. Unfortunately, it also has detriments, including the condition known as "tech neck." 

Here are some tips to prevent tech neck from happening to you.

1. Be Aware of the Tech Neck Problem

The act of holding your head flexed and forward while looking down places your cervical spine in a tenuous position. Repeated too frequently and over long periods of time can lead to muscular strain, disc injury, arthritic changes of the neck and lead to neck and shoulder pain, headaches, and symptoms down the arms. Understanding that poor posture while you are using handheld devices can create many unwanted health issues involving your cervical spine is critical to so that you can use tips 2-5 to keep safe.

Learn how to manage pain by using the Alexander Technique.

Opioid withdrawal is highly unpleasant, and for some people it feels intolerable.

You may be able to address your pain source with a little self care.

What are the long-term consequences of using painkillers for quick pain relief?

Innocently starting with frequent use of OTC painkillers can be a slippery slope to addiction.

What do you do when your child is always in pain?

Pain costs an estimated $100 billion each year, with lost workdays due to pain adding up to over $50 million a year.

If you are diagnosed with CFS or fibromyalgia, are you doomed to suffer a life with the debilitating symptoms?

Learn a simple self-treatment technique to help you live a pain-free life.

Pain can be a valuable experience; even pain that you endure over long periods of time.

What are some non-invasive ways to heal?

What is the scope of the pain problem of fibromyalgia?

A little-known fact is that all grains, whether they're considered to be "gluten friendly" or not, cause inflammation in the body.

If you're suffering from chronic pain, it may be due to consumption of grains; and not just the traditional "gluten grains" either.

When you're in pain, exercise may seem like the last thing you want to do.

All painkillers, both prescription and over-the-counter, have potentially serious consequences.

Having back pain is the second most common reason people visit their doctors; third most common reason for hospitalization; and fifth most common cause for surgery.

More than 100 million Americans suffer from back pain, joint pain, arthritis, neck and muscle pain, headache, and other types of recurrent pain.

If you're suffering from chronic pain, medication might seem to be your only answer. Fortunately, it doesn't have to be.

Why do so many patients ignore their knee pain?

Peripheral neuropathy can be extremely painful. Are meds your only recourse? Or, is there a natural way to ease symptoms?

Before you reach for that OTC pain reliever, you may want to take a look at your diet.

Listen in as Dr. Mike provides the answers to a wealth of health and wellness questions.