Health Article description.Chronic pain often requires both counseling and medical treatment, because it can have a wearing effect on both the body and the mind. At a pain management clinic, you can get multidisciplinary treatment from a team of specialists, including:

Health Article description.Pain is a problem for many people who have sickle cell disease. Bouts of severe pain can last for hours to days and are hard to treat. A pain management plan can help you cope with chronic pain and with pain caused by a sickle cell crisis. Your...

Health Article description.Palliative care is a type of care for people who have a serious illness. It can help you manage symptoms, pain, or side effects from treatment. It can also help you cope with your feelings about living with a serious illness. Palliative care for managing pain The goal is for you to have the least pain with the fewest...

Health Article description.Discusses cancer pain management. Discusses causes such as tumor pressing on bones or nerves. Covers types of cancer pain. Discusses treatment with medicine, surgery, radiation, and other treatments.

Health Article description.Briefly explains what mindful meditation is. Offers step-by-step instructions for meditation. Includes tips for successful meditation.

Health Article description.Problem-solving can help you overcome complex stressful events. Here are the basic steps you can use. Identify all aspects of a stressful event. Think about your behavior, thoughts, and feelings. For example, if you have just been laid off from...

Health Article description.Explores ways to relax your mind and your body to release stress.

Health Article description.Briefly explains what progressive muscle relaxation is and how it can help reduce stress and anxiety. Gives step-by-step instructions for tensing and relaxing each muscle group in order.

Health Article description.Opioids are strong medicines. They can help you manage pain when you use them the right way. But they can cause serious harm and even death. If you decide to take opioids, here are some things to remember. Keep your doctor informed. You can develop...

Health Article description.Pain is an unpleasant feeling that can happen when there's something causing harm to your body, like an illness or injury. But sometimes it shows up even when there’s no actual illness or injury. Pain can affect your emotions as well as your body.

Health Article description.Explains how to do three types of imagery exercises to help with stress.

Health Article description.Pain medicine works better when the pain first starts, before it gets too bad. A patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pump lets you give yourself pain medicine when you need it. This gives you more control of your pain relief. The PCA pump contains your pain medicine. Usually that medicine is morphine, but other pain...

Health Article description.Pain can be caused by many things, such as an injury, a surgery, or a health problem like low back pain or cancer. Long-term pain that isn't controlled can make it harder to enjoy life. But there are ways you can learn to manage pain. And managing...

Health Article description.Provides links to info on common concerns of women's health. Includes info on birth control, hormone therapy for menopause symptoms, abnormal pap tests, and fertility problems. Also looks at pregnancy, labor, delivery, and the postpartum period.

Health Article description.Information on fibromyalgia, a syndrome that causes people to feel pain even when there is no injury. Covers symptoms and how it is diagnosed. Includes info on treatments such as medicines, exercise therapy, and cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Health Article description.Pain is a frustrating, sometimes debilitating aspect of ongoing (chronic) pancreatitis. Many people have pain for many years. Pain may decrease as the damaged pancreas loses its ability to produce enzymes. But it may take years for the pancreas to stop producing enzymes. In many people, this process never occurs. If you...

Health Article description.Discusses cancer of the lining of the uterus (endometrium). Covers having too much estrogen as most common cause. Discusses treatment with surgery, chemotherapy, and hormone and radiation therapy.

Health Article description.Briefly explains what guided imagery is. Gives step-by-step instructions for doing guided imagery.

Health Article description.Provides links to info on healthy living. Topics discuss healthy weight and weight loss. Discusses balancing how much you eat with how much you exercise. Covers whether your weight increases health risks. Includes info on nutrition.

Health Article description.Schizophrenia is a mental health condition that can affect your ability to think clearly, manage your emotions, and interact with others. It affects each person differently. Most people who have schizophrenia: Hear and sometimes see things that aren'

Health Article description.Learn about Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), which involves tapping on the body to manage emotions.

Health Article description.Discusses non-Hodgkin lymphoma, cancer of the cells of the lymph system. Covers what causes it and symptoms. Covers treatment, including chemotherapy. Offers home treatment tips to help manage side effects like diarrhea and fatigue.

Health Article description.Covers how to control the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) with diet. Suggests changing eating habits to manage symptoms. Lists foods that may cause symptoms.