EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — More than 51 million Americans report living with chronic pain. Over the past few decades, experts say increased prescriptions of opioid medicatinos were seen as a quick fix, but it also led to widespread misuse.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Neurosurgeon, says, “All pain occurs in the brain. If your brain doesn’t decide you have pain. Then you don’t have pain.”
Dr. Gupta says he’s not diminishing pain, but adds that humans can do almost anything within reason to the body, and even not have pain, if their brain decides its not there. On the contrary, the brain can create pain where it shouldn’t exist…