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Chronic pain affects one adult in five (20%) worldwide, or over 1.5 billion people, and is the leading cause of disability. It is defined as pain that lasts or recurs for longer than three months, often persisting beyond the expected time of healing.   When doctors treat it with medication – pain-killers – there is at times a tragic outcome, when patients become addicted. I suspect many Times of Israel readers suffer from chronic pain.

An article in University of California at San Francisco Magazine, Summer 2025 sheds new light and new hope: “Can We Train Our Brain to Unlearn Chronic Pain?” By Jaimie Seaton.

The bottom line: The brain ‘learns’ to feel chronic pain. What is learned, can be unlearned. Without........

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