Chronic low back pain significantly affects quality of life for millions of people worldwide. Back pain makes it difficult to ...

Many patients with advanced cancers experience significant pain, and the pain caused by metastases (cancers that have spread to the spine) can be excruciating as tumor growth replaces bone. This can ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio. (Ivanhoe Newswire) --- According to the National Center for Health Statistics, more than 1.2 million spinal surgeries are performed nationally each year. But sometimes the pain ...

Kelly Carnahan is no stranger to medical procedures. For the past three years, 52-old Kelly Carnahan has been dealing with chronic back pain and has tried just about everything to get relief from her ...

A non-surgical procedure called radiofrequency ablation can be highly effective in reducing or eliminating chronic back and joint pain in patients. The procedure can provide long-term relief by ...

A simple walk with her granddaughter is a victory for Michaelene D'Ambrosio. Six months ago, she was diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer. "Seventy percent of my breast tissue was tumor," said ...

A project at Fraunhofer ILT is developing a new robot-assisted and optically monitored laser surgery system for treatment of spinal canal stenosis. The condition, in which bony constrictions form in ...

The use of radiofrequency ablation--targeted heat from an electrical current to ease nerve pain--may be helpful for treating chronic neck pain, but only in patients meeting particular criteria, ...