Anyone injured in an accident allegedly caused by the negligence of another can sue for pain caused by the injury. The increasing number of surgeries injuries from accidents is now a.
Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023 at 5 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App. Pain psychologist and author Rachel Zoffness talks about chronic pain and how it affects individuals and society. She addresses the annual 635 billion dollars cost of pain, whether that’s through lost work, productivity, disability or healthcare expenses. She also discusses how pain is not only directly correlated to physicality but influenced by emotions, behaviors, social factors and more.
A team of Boston-based doctors is using novel technology that peers inside individual cells and catalogs every component, enabling the researchers to identify the features associated with pain.
About 1 in 6 New Zealanders live with chronic pain. Psychologist Dr Rachel Zoffness believes that medical treatment of chronic pain often fails because it is based on a flawed model of how pain works..