Chronic Pain, Wellness, and Physical Therapy
Pain affects more Americans than heart disease, diabetes, and cancer combined. The International Association of Pain describes pain as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage.” Not all pain is bad pain. Pain does have a protective function, for example, the response to lift your hand from the hot burner on the stove. However, when pain is present for reasons other than a protective mechanism it can cause chronic pr