Pain

Pain is a complex, multifactorial experience that includes nociceptive, neuropathic, and referred types. Our articles cover pain origins, treatment modalities, and alternative therapies including TENS, CBD, and pacing strategies. CareClinic functions as a pain symptom tracker App, allowing users to log intensity, location, type, and triggers alongside medication intake. Users who consistently track over 5 pain episodes per week report more accurate medication timing and better communication with providers.

PCOS Cramps: Relieving the Symptoms and Managing the Pain

If you are among the millions of women who suffer from polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), you are no stranger to chronic pain and discomfort during menstrual cycles. PCOS is a complex hormonal disorder that affects the female reproductive system, often...

Endocrine Women's Health

Ankylosing Spondylitis Flare Up: Managing Your Joint Pain

Do you or someone you know live with Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS)? If so, you know that it can be a challenge. However, you're not alone. AS is a chronic inflammatory arthritis that primarily affects the lower back, but can also...

Immune, Inflammatory & Infections

The Simple Pain Journal That Reveals What Doctors Might Miss

Over 51 million adults in the US live with chronic pain, yet most never track it. Without a daily pain journal, it is nearly impossible to understand what triggers flare-ups, whether treatments are working, or how symptoms evolve over time....

Mental Health

Working Through Pain: Managing Your Occupational Health

Do you experience chronic pain and are worried that this affects your work? There are many people suffering from this. To make things worse, sometimes this chronic pain is caused by work tasks themself. Throughout this article, we will delve...

Symptoms Wellness

Hemorrhoid Flare Up: Annoying and Painful

Hemorrhoids - a topic that many shy away from, yet one that affects millions of people worldwide. These pesky little veins in the lower rectum, similar to varicose veins, can cause discomfort, pain, and even bleeding during bowel movements. They're...

Gastrointestinal

Diverticulitis Flare Up: Painful Inflammation of the Colon

Are you experiencing pain and discomfort in your lower abdomen? How about bloating, fever, and changes in bowel movements? If so, you may be dealing with diverticulitis and its dreaded flare ups. This common condition affects millions of people around...

Symptoms

Gout Flare Up? Stop the Joint Pain Fast

Are you familiar with the saying "walking on glass?" For the millions of people worldwide who suffer from gout, it's not just a figure of speech – it's a daily reality. Gout is a type of arthritis that causes sudden...

Immune, Inflammatory & Infections

COPD Flare Up: A Painful Lung Condition

Do you ever have difficulty breathing or chronically cough up sputum? Do your usual symptoms get worse when someone is smoking cigarettes around you or even when taking a deep breath? Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) affects millions of people...

Respiratory

Sciatica Flare Up: The Painful Pinching of a Crucial Nerve

Sciatica Flare Up Sciatica is a condition that affects millions of people worldwide, causing pain, discomfort, and sometimes even disability. It is characterized by the inflammation or irritation of the sciatic nerve, which runs from the lower back down to...

Neurological

TMJ Flare Ups: Understanding, Managing, and Finding Relief

TMJ flare ups can be an excruciating and life-disrupting experience for those who suffer from them. This comprehensive article delves into the complexities of TMJ pain, its triggers, and various approaches to effectively manage and prevent future painful symptoms from....

Symptoms

Pink Discharge: Decode Causes and Stay Safe

It’s a common belief that getting your period isn’t the most pleasant of experiences, but what if I told you that even when not on their period, the female reproductive system releases another type of fluid from the vagina? This...

Women's Health

Perimenopause Aches and Pains: Ease Pain Fast

As we age, our bodies have limitations on what they can endure. Children are full of energy and can run around and play all day, whereas adults may require adequate sleep, nutrition, and stretching to accomplish strenuous physical activities. Adults...

Menopause

Costochondritis Stretches: Exercises to Relieve Chest Pain

Costochondritis is a harmless swelling (inflammation) of the cartilage that connects the ribs to the breastbone (sternum), creating a costochondral joint. Costochondritis feels like a sharp or aching pain in the chest area. It can start suddenly or develop slowly...

Heart & Blood

Migraine Ear Pain: Ease Inner Ear and Jaw Ache Fast

Migraines are a type of headache that can cause intense, debilitating pain. Some people also experience aura with migraines, which are visual or other neurological symptoms that occur before or during the headache. Migraines are thought to be caused by...

Neurological

What is Spoon Theory? For Chronic Illness & Mental Health

Are you someone trying to manage one or more chronic illnesses, mental health concerns, or have chronic fatigue? Do you feel tired and exhausted after routine activities of daily living where other people do not feel the same? Does your...

Mental Health Symptoms

Pain Flare Ups | Know Your Symptoms & Triggers

Pain from underlying conditions can flare up for a variety of reasons. Sometimes, an increase in pain may be due to a change in your condition. Other times, it may be the result of overdoing it or not getting...

Symptoms

Best Migraine Tracker: Log Pain Patterns for Faster Relief

Migraine is a debilitating condition that can significantly impact a person's quality of life. When choosing a migraine tracking app, see the . Many different factors can contribute to the development of migraines, such as genetics, stress, and certain environmental...

Features Neurological

Bloated and Gassy? Fix Constipation and Bubble Belly Fast

After a heavy meal, many of us complain of feeling too full, like our stomach is tight and protruding. After certain meals (I’m looking at you Mexican food), we may also feel like we have a bubbly stomach and, well,...

Gastrointestinal Symptoms

MS Hug Symptoms: Understand Your Triggers & Treatment

Let's just jump right into it. Multiple Sclerosis (MS) hug symptoms occur because of muscle spasms in the intercostal muscles. The intercostal muscles are the muscles that line the spaces of the ribs and in turn, overall protect the ribcage...

Neurological

Childhood Chronic Illnesses – How To Help Children Cope

Before starting, it is important to understand what the word "chronic" means when talking about childhood chronic illnesses. In medicine, the word "chronic" refers to any health condition that lasts for a minimum of three months up to a lifetime...

Children

Sauna Health Benefits: Infrared vs Steam for Detox and Pain

Going to the sauna every once in a while helps ease stress. Saunas are associated with various health benefits and there are various forms of saunas. Using a sauna not only helps increase circulation and helps relaxation, it has the...

Wellness

Faces Pain Scale: Rate Pain Easily With This Visual Tool

A faces pain scale was originally designed (with kids) for kids (above the age of three) to be able to describe their pain, as a self-reporting measure. The original pain scale faces had a total of seven faces (refer to...

Symptoms

Graded Exposure Therapy: How To Overcome Your Fears

Is your daily life affected by fears that are difficult to overcome or confront and wish to get rid of it and live more freely? Some of us may be born and accompanied by many fears of varying levels and...

Mental Health

Managing Congestive Heart Failure With A Healthy Lifestyle

Hearing the term "heart failure" or "congestive heart failure" can be scary but it doesn't mean that the heart has completely lost all its function. If you have previously experienced heart failure or are a cardiac patient, taking care of...

Heart & Blood

How to Retrain Your Brain to Break Bad Patterns

Have you ever felt like you needed a break? Do you have negative thinking patterns or chronic headaches that you need to get relief from? Have you tried all the regular methods and still come up short? Then you need...

Mental Health

Understanding The Long Term Effects Of Chronic Pain

Have you suffered from persistent pain over a long period of time? Or perhaps a small injury and the pain never seemed to vanish? We all experience and respond to pain differently. It is a complex feeling and if occurred...

Neurological

Understanding Psilocybin Therapy & Mushroom Therapy

There are many forms of alternative medicine; with some being more widely accepted than others. Ranging from the pharmaceutical industry to naturopathy, there is a multitude of compounds used for the treatment of a wide variety of ailments. Some of...

Neurological Prescription Medication

Physical Therapy Exercise Tracker: Rebuild Strength Fast

Physical therapy exercise is a non-invasive therapy that helps you develop, maintain, and restore maximum body movement and physical function. Usually, you might need to go for physical therapy exercises when you suffer from an injury or pain. Physical therapy...

Muscle, Bone & Joint

Pain Therapy: Tracking Your Muscle with Apps

If you are living with persistent discomfort, pain, therapy can help you take control before things spiral further. Whether your pain is physical, post-surgical, or chronic, the right therapy can reduce symptoms, speed up recovery, and prevent long-term damage. This...

Muscle, Bone & Joint Neurological

Acute Pain: A Practical Guide to Pain Management

Everyone experiences and responds to pain differently. Acute pain is a type of pain that could last from a minute to about three months and sometimes up to six months. For those don’t know, acute pain usually begins suddenly and...

Symptoms