Inside chronic pain

"Chronic pain, which affects 70 million people in the United States alone - more than diabetes, cancer, and heart disease combined - is a major public health issue that remains poorly understood both within the health care system and by those closest to the people it afflicts. This book examines the experience of pain in ways that could significantly improve how patients and practitioners deal with pain." "Since surviving a near-fatal car accident, Lous Heshusius has suffered from chronic pain for more than a decade. Inside Chronic Pain, based in part on the pain journal Heshusius keeps, is a…