Think of a toothache and many would empathise with the borrowed saying: “Pain, pain, go away! Please do not come back another day!” Pain motivates us to seek medical care yet non-painful health issues are often treated with less urgency — and sometimes the cause of pain is not easily recognisable. Let’s take diabetes, for example. […]

Neuropathic pain can be debilitating but antioxidants might offer some hope as a treatment.

Can a pill reduce the “existential” pain of being alive, and do you want it to?

Reflexology has been shown to effectively relieve pain.

Alternative therapies can often help in relieving pain and although there may be no scientific explanation yet as to why they work so well, the basic fact is that in lots of cases they do work.

Using tablet computers may pose problems for your neck and shoulders.

This final blog in the series gives some information about possible treatments of TMJ dysfunction and head and neck pain related to it.

Pain associated with either TMJ or muscle dysfunction can vary from a very localized feeling of stiffness of the particular muscle on only one side, to a headache of epic proportions! You may not be able to open your mouth very wide, it may hurt to touch your face or to chew or you may […]

A new method of treating tooth decay is not only effective but pain free.

In this series of blogs we will cover some common muscle and jaw-related problems which can mimic toothaches or even cause ongoing discomfort that cannot be attributed to any physical or hormonal anomaly.

Yoga reduces physical and subjective measures of pain in fribromyalgia.

Crossing your arms can trick your brain into perceiving less pain.