Live from the Institute for Functional Medicine Annual International Conference 2019
June 3, 2019
Rethinking chronic pain
There are many different ways to approach chronic pain, said Heather Tick, MD, at the 2019 Institute for Functional Medicine Annual International Conference in San Antonio, Texas.
In the U.S., $560-635 billion is spent annually on pain care, said Tick. This exceeds the annual expenditures for heart disease, cancer, and diabetes combined.
“There are huge costs to how we treat pain case now,” said Tick. “We have an epidemic of chronic disease and, as those figures grow, we’re going to have more pain.”
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