The Full Picture of Chronic Pain
Leading health organizations, including the World Health Organization and the National Institutes of Health, recognize that chronic pain is more complex than acute pain.
Acute pain alerts the body to injury or potential danger. But when pain and other symptoms persist, there's often more going on than physical damage alone.
Research shows that a range of overlapping biological, psychological, and social factors can influence persistent symptoms.
That’s why modern approaches to chronic pain increasingly consider how the brain and nervous system, life stressors, past experiences, and learned patterns may contribute to ongoing symptoms.
Understanding how these factors influence pain — and which may be part of a person’s experience — can open the door to new recovery tools and possibilities for progress.
Curable's guided recovery program puts this updated understanding of pain into practice, helping people make sense of their symptoms and find a path forward.
