Rewiring Our Brain’s Pain Pathways

Here we explore the mind/body connection with pain and the mechanism of chronic pain with a spine specialist surgeon who has over 30 years experience in the care of chronic back pain. He advocates something he calls DOC, which stands for Direct Your Own Care, and he only performs surgery on patients he feels are certain to find relief through surgery. David Hanscom is the author of Back in Control: A Surgeon’s Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain.