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Chronic pain is an epidemic. The Institute of Medicine of
The National Academies[1] estimates
that 100 million American adults live with chronic pain, yet there are few
effective treatments. Doctors only receive about nine hours
of[2]
education focused on chronic pain management during the course of medical
school, and The National Institute of Health (NIH) spends only about 1% of their
budget on researching chronic pain. Judy
Foreman[3], a highly respected
medical journalist for many years before she developed chronic pain, recently
wrote a book “A
Nation in Pain: Healing our Biggest Health Problem,”[4]
about how little doctors know and understand chronic pain and how it
works.