He seemed to have relaxed slightly, as if a chronic ache had receded.

"Muscle pain" does not convey the severe, chronic ache that is a subset of this illness.

But Soho had grown accustomed to chronic conspiratorial aches and pains, which would become crippling at trial time.

He set down his teacup and rubbed his fingers as if for warmth or to massage away some chronic ache.

In fact, I think about them every day as I struggle out of bed desperate for the shower to relieve my chronic aches.

She wondered if numbness qualified as a chronic ache.

Physicians in the United States wrote more than 21 million prescriptions for the drug last year to treat a wide range of chronic aches and pains.

For some people, the pain may evolve into a chronic back ache in the injured area.

That robo-routine could be the reason for the chronic ache in your pelvis.

A chronic ache across the back of the head from a fractured skull, sustained in an accident that he could not put his finger on.