Whether it’s a dull, underlying ache in your spine or a piercing stab, chronic back pain affects roughly 1 in 4 Americans. UC San Francisco’s Prasad Shirvalkar, MD, Ph.D, neurologist and pain medicine ...

Your first episode of back pain can come at you fast. One minute you’re sitting crisscross on the ground and yapping for hours or flinging a duffel over a shoulder no problem, and the next, you’re on ...

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Do you have lingering pain in your lower back? You’re hardly alone. About a quarter of Americans had low back pain in the last three months. If it lasts for that long, your pain may be diagnosed as ...

I always knew that back pain was something a lot of people struggled with, but I never understood just how debilitating it could be—until I developed it myself. I was six months postpartum the first ...

It can be hard to sleep when you’re experiencing any type of pain, but lower back pain is its own special kind of hell—and it’s, unfortunately, something roughly 80% of people will experience at some ...