Steroids help reduce inflammation that can cause severe back pain, but steroids aren’t long-term solutions. They come with a number of potential side effects and health risks. Share on Pinterest Getty ...

Some evidence suggests that the Mediterranean diet and other dietary plans can help reduce inflammation. As such, these diets may help some people with managing back pain. The Mediterranean diet is an ...

First, it’s important to understand that inflammation isn’t always bad. “Inflammation is one of the body’s key mechanisms for maintaining homeostasis, acting as a natural response to injury, infection ...

Ibuprofen’s anti-inflammatory action may influence cancer risk, but evidence remains complex and routine use for prevention is not advised. Ibuprofen is one of the most widely used pain relievers, ...

Dexamethasone injections are sometimes used for back pain. They help reduce inflammation, which, in turn, helps you manage your pain. Dexamethasone is a generic prescription drug and part of the ...

Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is a type of inflammatory arthritis that affects the spinal joints and the joints that connect the bottom of the spine to the hip bones (the sacroiliac joints). Experts ...

How Psoriatic Arthritis Can Affect the Spine How Common Is Spondylitis in People Who Have Psoriatic Arthritis? Symptoms of Psoriatic Arthritis in the Spine How to Tell if Back Pain Is Related to ...

There are certain symptoms that seem obviously linked together: If you have heartburn and regurgitation, the signs point to gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD. If you have bad headaches, nausea, ...

Primary care practitioners have an important role to play in helping to diagnose people with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) much sooner than is currently being achieved, according to several experts ...

In patients with spondyloarthritis, onset of common musculoskeletal symptoms such as back pain led to diagnostic delays averaging over 7 years. Onset with extra-musculoskeletal manifestations such as ...

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories are ubiquitous in marathoning and ultrarunning because they work—but at a cost, experts warn ...

Patients with axial psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) plus psoriasis differ with respect to clinical and genetic characteristics, according to the findings of a recent ...