“Chronic and persistent pain do not require an initiated injury. If we come at it from the point of view that there has to be a precipitating injury, then we’re going to be looking for the injury, and that can pull us way off course.”

Dr. Irving joined the Herbal Hour Podcast to talk about the neuroscience of pain and how beliefs shape the body’s response to it. Hear him discuss his thoughts on chronic pain, his experience as a patient and practitioner, and how to be free of chronic pain here.