Rachel Zoffness, Ph.D., is a pain psychologist, medical consultant, author and speaker. She is a medical educator at the UCSF School of Medicine, where she teaches pain neuroscience. She is the author ...

Chronic pain — relentless suffering or injury that endures for more than six months at a time — can seriously detract from one’s quality of life and often facilitates dangerous dependencies on opiates ...

Pain is an unpleasant signal and complex experience when something hurts. It’s an important message to let us know something is wrong, and to help us to take action to prevent further harm. Chronic ...