Medications, mind-body techniques, and acupuncture can help relieve chronic pain. Learn about your options.

This feature article examines all the options -- including a safe topical analgesic patch that can help. Read on to learn more.

This guide will get you started in getting pain relief -- finding a pain specialist, deciding on treatment, and more. This link will take you to a web site that can help.

You’ve got a number of pain-relief options -- some more effective than others, some offering distraction rather than pain relief. This link will take you to an NIH web site that explains.

It’s hard to weigh the risks and benefits of pain medications. Click here for a web site that can help.

Lifestyle changes, physical therapy, counseling -- in addition to medication or surgery, these can also bring pain relief. Click here to learn more.

This hands-on therapy has been shown to help in treating neck pain and headaches. Read this brief overview.

If you have painful compression fractures in the spine, both surgical and nonsurgical treatments are explored. This article provides an overview.

Many people don’t ask for or get help because they have common misperceptions about pain control. This link takes you to a helpful article at the American Cancer Society web site. 

Research shows that acupuncture and other nonmedical treatments can provide pain relief. Click here to learn more.

This overview provides a look at the options for pain medication, including possible side effects. Read on.

Learn about risks vs. benefits of narcotics used to treat severe pain. Click here for more information.

When a local anesthetic is injected, it causes a nerve block -- which blocks the pain. Learn more about nerve blocks and how they’re used. Click here.

Learn about injections used to treat serious muscle “knots” called trigger points. Click here.

Low-level electrical signals can block pain signals from reaching the brain. Read to learn more.

These systems help people with cancer or chronic pain. Read this brief introduction.

PCA pumps have many plusses in pain control. Read more about PCA pumps.

If you need short-term pain relief, TENS might help. Learn how TENS can scramble your brain’s perception of pain.

This is a safe alternative to pain medication. Learn how bioelectric therapy can block pain messages to the brain. Click here.

At the last resort, there are surgical options to treat pain. This article briefly describes them.

This article provides an in-depth look at cancer pain treatment. Click on this link to reach the NIH web site.

This article clarifies pain-related misconceptions in treating elderly cancer patients. Click here to reach the NIH web site.

Many people don’t like taking a pill regularly for pain relief. Here are some alternatives.

A few changes in everyday habits can help get pain under control. Read these tips.

Western medicine has found what the Chinese have long known -- that acupuncture can help relieve pain. Click here to watch a video that explains.

You strengthen muscles, improve flexibility, boost your mood, and more -- all with exercise. Read on about this amazing therapy.

Learn more about addiction of pain medication -- and signs of addiction. Click here.

This pain relief care is for those with cancer, heart failure, or who are dying. Read more about palliative care.

If you take narcotic pain relievers, your doctor may ask you to sign an agreement form. Read about the purpose of this form.

Pain from cancer or cancer treatment can be serious -- but it can be controlled in almost every case. Click here to read more.