 We all know what pain feels like, e.g a short sharp shock of a graze to the knee.
It's an unwelcome sensation, but it's part of being
human. Those few born unable to feel pain - the condition is known as
congenital analgesia - die young from injuries they never felt, their
bodies scarred from head to toe.
From back pain to cancer, much of the process of coping with pain is a
mental one. Geoff Watts discovers how pain management clinics are using
a huge variety of different techniques, including medication, art
therapy and acupuncture, to help chronic sufferers live as normally as
possible.
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