An excerpt from Multidisciplinary Management of Chronic Pain: A Practical Guide for Clinicians.
In all of medicine there may be no bigger mystery than chronic, nonmalignant pain — especially to those of us who treat it. Pain usually serves a biological purpose, yet in chronic pain patients, pain symptoms seems …
There may be no bigger mystery than chronic pain
Over 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain such as spinal disorders (lower back pain, disc disease, pinched nerves and neck pain), complex regional pain syndrome, fibromyalgia and headaches. The cost of chronic pain in human suffering, lost worker productivity and in health care dollars is counted in the billions.
Yet despite newer, expensive and invasive treatments like spinal fusions and disc surgery, spinal cord stimulators, steroid and painkiller injections, nerve “burning” and of …
How the health care system is making pain patients worse
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