Suffering Chronic Pain? Sorry, Much of the Burden to Get Better Falls to You

By Scott Mowbray

As I sit through session after session at PainWeek, an annual medical conference held this year in Las Vegas, the message I hear is that much of the responsibility for effective chronic pain treatment rests on the patient’s shoulders. Whether pain comes from a bad back, migraines, arthritis, fibromyalgia, or—in one case cited by a psychologist—from getting a leg blown off by an improvised explosive device in Iraq, a lot of the heavy lifting is the patient’s. Read More