By: Juliette Siegfried
The number of people suffering
from chronic pain is staggering. In a recent Gallup poll, 47% of American
adults reported that they experience chronic neck, back, leg, knee or some
other form of chronic pain on a regular basis. The amount of money spent on
pain relievers and therapies to manage this pain every year is in the hundreds
of billions of dollars, an average of $2,000 for every adult American. People
try acupuncture to relieve their pain, or meditation, or any number of other
conventional or alternative forms of treatment. So will they be pleased or
distressed to learn that one of the best things you can do to reduce your
sensitivity to pain is to simply get more sleep?
