Chronic Pain: If it's possible to recover, why do so many doctors say it's not?
In 2025, I experienced daily, disabling, widespread joint pain. It started suddenly and went on for almost 8 months.
As far as chronic pain stories go, mine was pretty brief. I know of people who have suffered for decades.
The reason my episode was so short was because I knew without any doubt from the moment of onset that the pain was emotional. There was no, and never will be any, physical explanation for sudden-onset, widespread, persistent pain.
Doctors talk about chronic pain as if it were a life sentence that you “just have to learn to live with” because their medical training completely ignores the mind-body nature of human beings.
Just as I did with the Hauber Method, I am fighting to change society's minconceptions about chronic pain.
But unlike my back-care methods, I'm committing my efforts to training the people who seem to hold all the power when someone seeks treatment for chronic pain: healthcare practitioners.
You'll notice that this website (the one you're looking at right now) won't have much new content now, as I concentrate on educating and training clinicians about the mind-body nature of chronic pain and their own duty to better treat patients with pain.
If you're interested, or you know a clinician who is frustrated by their seeming inability to help their patients with chronic pain, click the image below to visit my current website.
As far as chronic pain stories go, mine was pretty brief. I know of people who have suffered for decades.
The reason my episode was so short was because I knew without any doubt from the moment of onset that the pain was emotional. There was no, and never will be any, physical explanation for sudden-onset, widespread, persistent pain.
Doctors talk about chronic pain as if it were a life sentence that you “just have to learn to live with” because their medical training completely ignores the mind-body nature of human beings.
Just as I did with the Hauber Method, I am fighting to change society's minconceptions about chronic pain.
But unlike my back-care methods, I'm committing my efforts to training the people who seem to hold all the power when someone seeks treatment for chronic pain: healthcare practitioners.
You'll notice that this website (the one you're looking at right now) won't have much new content now, as I concentrate on educating and training clinicians about the mind-body nature of chronic pain and their own duty to better treat patients with pain.
If you're interested, or you know a clinician who is frustrated by their seeming inability to help their patients with chronic pain, click the image below to visit my current website.
Page updated April 2026.