Chronic Pain: Why Nothing has Worked Yet and What Does Part 1

In Part 1, you will learn:

• Just how big the pain problem is and why it has become an epidemic  
• What the outdated understanding of pain is and how this model has led to ineffective treatment
• A new understanding of pain. Meet: primary and secondary pain
• How this new understanding of pain changes everything for people living with chronic pain

Key Takeaways:

• Pain is an epidemic. Approximately 1 in 4 people (20-25% of the population) live with some form of chronic pain;  that’s more than heart disease, diabetes, and cancer combined.
• The Descartes model of pain, which states that pain is directly correlated with tissue damage, is outdated and incomplete.
• A new understanding of pain identifies two types of pain: secondary and primary.  Secondary pain is secondary to a medical condition such as tissue damage. Primary pain, a new diagnostic category of pain, is generated by the brain, often without the presence of any other medical condition.
• This new understanding of pain requires an urgent transformation in pain treatment.