Medicare administrative contracts have proposed eliminating coverage for peripheral nerve block procedures for chronic pain disorders.

Your greater occipital nerve is responsible for most of the feeling in the back and top of your head. Irritation or inflammation of this nerve can cause headaches. People with occipital nerve ...

Harry Freedman is an avid cyclist. When the weather's bad outside he brings his ride inside. But for a few years, pain forced Harry to stop peddling. "It was debilitating. It was hard for me to work.

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - At 70, Curt Bazemore, a retired Forsyth County physical therapist and athletic trainer turned full-time grandpa-pickleball player-golfer, has had both knees replaced. The surgery ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. After Nick Ventimiglia was diagnosed with diabetes at age 40, he began to experience increasing pain and numbness in his upper ...

WASHINGTON - "Maxed out on the medications," is how Bill Ezzell describes his struggle with blood pressure. It's dangerously high even though the North Carolina man swallows six different drugs a day.