If you suffer from any of the above, or any pain at all, and haven’t come across the writings of Dr. Jolie Bookspan, I recommend highly you take a look.
She just put something I wanted to get off my chest on her blog at Healthline.
For somebody with an engineering background like me, I understand and totally relate to her particular view on how to fix pain. As I wrote there, it’s working better for me than anything else ever, and apparently I’m not the only one.
Her blog is very worthwhile to read, and her books should be required reading for all physical therapists, chiropractors, or anybody who has ever taken or prescribed a pain killer. Sadly, they are not. (They are also often very funny, in the "why didn’t I think myself that that kind of conventional wisdom simply has to be wrong" kind of category.)
She also has one of the most impressive resumes that I’ve ever come across.
If you have any kind of pain, I virtually guarantee you will be glad to have spent a bit a time on this.