Patient Endurance

Up to fifty-six million American adults (twenty-eight percent of the adult population) experience chronic pain. Many people have lived with pain for more than five years and experience it almost six days per week. Younger people are as likely to experience chronic pain as older people. One-third of Americans lose twenty hours of sleep a month because of pain.12

Chronic pain is constant. Although it often consumes the sufferer’s life with doctors, medicines, procedures, and therapy, which all...