Let’s accept it: gone are the days when back pain used to be an issue for elderly people. Nowadays, it is one of the most common complaints, even among young adults. Many people shrug it off as a ...

Suffering bouts of back ache or the occasional twinge every now and then is fairly common - especially as we get older or if we've been exercising. And data from the National Institute for Health and ...

Mary Sage lay frozen in place, in such severe pain she couldn’t will herself off the chiropractor’s table. It was 2015, and Sage, then a 56-year-old program operation analyst at the University of ...

Don’t automatically assume you’ve slipped a disc or pulled a muscle. Abdominal (the tummy area) or back pain could be a warning sign, “particularly if it’s a mild discomfort and worsens over time, or ...

If you get an answer from a doctor that you don't like, get a second, third, fourth opinion,” Corinne Torney said ...

A once “fit and healthy” 25-year-old woman, whose lower back pain was initially misdiagnosed, died from bone cancer less than a year after a tumour was finally discovered in her pelvis. When Kate ...

Pancreatitis is excruciatingly painful, especially after eating. The pancreas is behind the lower part of the stomach, ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

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