Breakthrough on chronic pain

It astonishes me how much people are resistant to the fact that chronic pain is caused by lifestyles and can often be cured quite quickly by simple methods.

For instance, McKenzie found that about 80% of back pain can be cured by simply putting the back into extension instead of flexion. Unfortunately if you go see a doc for back pain your odds are less than 40% that you will get this treatment.

Similarly a lot of neck pain is caused by overuse of the neck muscles because your posture is screwed up and you are continuously working the muscles to keep the head position. Any kind of strengthening and stretching exercises will make things worse (McKenzie advocates these and they don't work)

Do some exercises on the back and hips for two weeks that will realign your posture so that you keep your neck up without effort and the pain will usually diminish in one or two weeks.

Unfortunately Harvard or other doctors don't get funded to study things like this and get them to the people, instead they get funding for something like this which will launch a $5B research program, than a very expensive drug you will see advertised on TV and then in a few months you will see TV ads from ambulance chasing lawyers.