Enlarge this image Robert Kerley is recovering from an opioid addiction with help from Kaiser Permanente’s pain management program in Colorado. John…
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Enlarge this image Lauren Kafka rented a machine that delivered cold water and compression to manage pain after rotator cuff surgery. Her…
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Popular Surgery To Ease Chronic Shoulder Pain Called Into Question
by Patti Neighmond November 21, 2017Enlarge this image Doctors think the chronic pain of “shoulder impingement” may arise from age-related tendon and muscle degeneration, or from a…
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Doctor Who Wrote 1980 Letter On Painkillers Regrets That It Fed The Opioid Crisis
by NPR June 16, 2017Enlarge this image A 1980 letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine was later widely cited as evidence that long-term…
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Enlarge this image Millennials are more apt to treat low back pain themselves, and with treatments like exercise and massage. Getty Images/iStockphoto…
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Enlarge this image The FDA expanded its warnings about prescription cough and pain medications that contain the narcotics codeine or tramadol. Sujata…
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Enlarge this image John Evard, 70, at the Las Vegas Recovery Center last July. Evard, a retired tax attorney, checked into a…
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Enlarge this image Pfizer’s Celebrex fared well in a safety study that compared the pain reliever with ibuprofen and naproxen. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg…