A Holistic Approach to Chronic Pain: Revisiting the mind-body connection to curb the chronic pain
- Rebecca Salama
- Jul 11, 2023
- 4 min read
Currently, about 21% of the global population is suffering from chronic pain¹, this means 1 in 5 people. The first time I heard this number I thought it had to be an exaggeration, it cannot be that so many people are walking around with pain on a daily basis. But the more I looked into it, even on a country by country level, the more I was confronted with the numbers and found that it is indeed accurate. In some countries the numbers are even higher. For instance, in the US, it is said to be as high as 30.6%¹ of the population, and also in the UK this number is above the average, at 23%², according to the UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).
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