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In 2015, a huge bibliography and “good footnotes” still set PainScience apart.1My footnotes contain either extra commentary and whimsical asides, or citations to science and other sources, like this: Woolf CJ. Central sensitization: Implications for...

By Dr. Mercola Low back and neck pain (spinal pain), along with osteoarthritis of the hip and knee, are leading causes of disability worldwide. It's estimated that more than 9 percent of the global population suffers from spinal pain while another ...

By Dr. Mercola More than 28,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses in 2014 — more deaths than any other year on record, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The number includes deaths from both heroin...

Neck pain is a common complaint in physical therapy, being the number three cause of chronic pain in the United States. The unfortunate byproduct is that most people believe that neck pain is a normal condition, with 41% believing it’s a part of the...

America’s Pain Crisis Judy Foreman was educated at Harvard, and has been a Lecturer on Medicine at Harvard’s Medical School. In 2014, she published a book titled (1): A Nation in Pain Healing Our Biggest Health Problem Ms. Foreman notes that of the...