You’ve been lied to about pain—here’s the truth
Science Quickly
Scientific American
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🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:50.8 | From stubbing your toe to dealing with the occasional headache or sore back, to experience pain |
| 0:56.1 | is to be human. And for minor aches and pains, the occasional over-the-counter medication is usually |
| 1:01.5 | enough. But what happens if the pain we're dealing with isn't a one-off? What happens when that pain |
| 1:06.9 | becomes chronic? According to 2023 data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, |
| 1:13.2 | roughly a quarter of U.S. adults experience chronic pain. Rachel Zoffness, a pain scientist |
| 1:18.2 | and an assistant clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco, who also teaches |
| 1:23.2 | pain science at Sanford University, argues that pain is often misunderstood by the general public |
| 1:28.5 | and by doctors. The end result she says in her new book, tell me where it hurts the new science |
| 1:34.4 | of pain and how to heal, is that many of us are suffering for more pain than necessary. |
| 1:39.5 | I talked with Rachel about our misconceptions around pain and what we can do to reduce |
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