Middle back pain affects the thoracic spine—the part of the spine that supports the rib cage in the middle and upper back. Compared to lower back (lumbar spine) and neck (cervical spine) pain, this ...

Reducing sedentary time by as little as 40 minutes a day and increasing physical activity by 20 minutes may help prevent back ...

Back pain often happens because something is off in the way your spinal joints, muscles, discs, and nerves fit together and move. Nighttime back pain is a special type of lower back pain that ...

After six months, "back pain intensity increased significantly more in the control ... “Our participants were quite normal ...

Back pain is a common complaint in the emergency department and can be divided into two categories: acute versus chronic.

The pain started in waves in my lower back and travelled down my left thigh as I worked bent over my laptop on my couch—the ...

Lower back pain is one of the leading causes of disability ... a physical therapist at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York who was not affiliated with the study. ( ...

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A new study from the University of Turku in Finland showed that reducing daily sitting prevented back pain from worsening ...

Cancer pain is common, even after treatment has ended, so doctors at MSK have developed a number of ways to treat cancer pain ...

Stewart, for her part, was eventually brought back into triage ... the director of the University of Florida’s Pain Research and Intervention Center of Excellence, suggests another explanation.