Pain Sense: Revolutionary Insights into Human Physiology and How it Helps Us Understand and Eliminate Chronic Pain

By Dr. Stephen Hussey, MS, DC

The sensation of pain has played an essential role in the evolution of life. As life evolved to be more complex, the mechanisms of how pain is created and felt has also become more complex. Due to a humans' level of cognition, the creation and sensation of pain in humans is different and more complex than it is for any other species on Earth. While pain signaling is essential for the success of any species, humans are facing an epidemic of pathologic pain signaling that has no usefulness for survival: chronic pain.

This epidemic of chronic pain is creating the unnecessary suffering of millions of people. It is costing millions of dollars to treat, keeping millions of people from being able to work, and the treatments offered by modern medicine (drugs and surgery) are not only ineffective, they are causing more problems than they are solving. The mainstream approach to chronic pain is not working because it does not seek to understand the underlying causes of chronic pain. A radical look at how pain develops in humans and how best to treat it is needed.

Pain Sense demystifies chronic pain and offers new approaches to combating the epidemic of chronic pain we are facing today. By looking at life through the lens of biophysics, Dr. Stephen Hussey uses revolutionary insights into human physiology to illustrate a whole new understanding of why pain signaling has become chronic in so many people. These insights light a clear path forward to eliminating chronic pain and alleviating the burden it is placing on many individuals and society as a whole.