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

Pain medicine doctors are experts at diagnosing the cause of pain and treating it. Click here to learn more about pain specialists.

Older people suffer from more pain, but are often not adequately treated. Find out more.

Palliative care involves improving the quality of life for those who are suffering from severe chronic illnesses such as cancer and heart failure, or who may be dying. Pain relief is one of the main components of palliative care.

Do you need to see your GP or just pop to the chemist for painkillers? Here’s a brief guide.

Learn about injections used to treat painful muscle “knots” called trigger points.

When a local anaesthetic is injected, it causes a nerve block – which prevents the pain sensation from getting through. Learn more about nerve blocks and how they’re used.

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

PCA pumps put the patient with severe chronic pain in control of their pain relief.

Learn about risks vs. benefits of narcotics (opioids) used to treat severe pain.

Learn more about addiction to pain medication – and signs of addiction.

Learn more about treatment options for neuropathic pain.

Could acupuncture, yoga, hypnosis, massage or other complementary or alternative therapies be the key to pain relief?

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

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

Acupuncture can help relieve pain. Scientists are still trying to find out how it works.

A complication of shingles is the painful after-effect known as postherpetic neuralgia.  This condition occurs only in some people who have had shingles, and may continue long after the rash has disappeared.

There are many pain-relief options for rheumatoid arthritis – some more effective than others. Find out more.

If you have painful compression fractures in the spine, both surgical and nonsurgical treatments are explored.

It’s important to start cancer pain treatment as early as possible to get the most benefit.