Pain relief

Abstract

Of course, once your pain is sufficient to remind you to protect the body part at risk, further pain can only cause you suffering. It has long been theorized that such unreasonable pain indicates something has thwarted the body’s natural defenses. An ancient Greek philosophical teaching holds that Nature normally keeps pain within reasonable limits: "Pain does not dwell continuously in the flesh. Extreme pain is present but a very brief time."1 Modern research has confirmed that the body has a complex array of natural defenses against unreasonable pain.