Thirty million people in the U.S. suffer from chronic low back pain. It’s a pain that continues for more than six months. For many, the pain lasts years. When you’ve tried medication, steroid ...

Many patients with advanced cancers experience significant pain, and the pain caused by metastases (cancers that have spread to the spine) can be excruciating as tumor growth replaces bone. This can ...

Pain management in bone metastases has witnessed significant advancements through the utilisation of ablation techniques. These minimally invasive procedures aim to relieve debilitating pain ...

Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a procedure aiming to shrink the sizes of nodules and tumors or treat pain. RFA is not a cure-all solution, however. Back pain may not go away after RFA or may come ...

A non-surgical procedure called radiofrequency ablation can be highly effective in reducing or eliminating chronic back and joint pain in patients. The procedure can provide long-term relief by ...

Beverly Smith turns 81 soon — she can’t believe where the time has gone. The mother of five and grandmother to two has been dealing with serious back pain since she was 19. In 1959, a driver in ...

The use of radiofrequency ablation--targeted heat from an electrical current to ease nerve pain--may be helpful for treating chronic neck pain, but only in patients meeting particular criteria, ...