Understanding Your Pain

When you understand why you hurt, the purpose of each treatment begins to make sense.

What You'll Learn

• How pain works (the three components: body, emotions, and thoughts)
• The two types of pain: nociceptive pain and neuropathic pain
• What happens when a nerve is compressed
• Why you have both back pain and leg pain
• Why walking makes it worse (intermittent claudication)
• What chronic pain is and how it develops
• Common misconceptions about pain