Making Sense of Chronic Pain: How it works, why it lingers, and what you can do about it - Softcover

Curry, Jerry

 
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Synopsis

Your tests came back normal. Your doctors ran out of answers. But the pain never left.

You're not imagining it. You're not weak. And you're not crazy.

Chronic pain doesn't follow the rules medicine taught us. It doesn't show up clean on scans. It doesn't respond to treatments that should work. And it doesn't care how many specialists you've seen or how many times you've been told there's nothing wrong.

There is something wrong. It's just not what anyone told you to look for.

Making Sense of Chronic Pain explains the actual mechanics behind why pain persists — the neuroscience, the nervous system patterns, and the biology that keeps your body stuck in a threat response long after the original injury is gone. It covers fibromyalgia, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, CRPS, POTS, trauma-related pain, and the conditions that fall through the cracks of conventional medicine.

This isn't a cure. It's something more useful — an explanation that finally makes sense of what your body has been doing and why. Because understanding your pain is the first step toward actually doing something about it.

Written by a licensed massage therapist and strength and conditioning specialist with over 20 years of clinical experience working with chronic pain patients and athletes.

If you've been collecting diagnoses and running out of hope, this book was written for you.

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