Pain affects more Americans than diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined, according to the American Academy of Pain Medicine.
Pain from disease or injury can diminish quality of life — a toll that can be physical and mental.
In this previously aired Mayo Clinic Minute, resiliency expert Dr. Amit Sood offers ideas for dealing with temporary and long-term pain. Jeff Olsen reports.
Journalists: Broadcast-quality video (1:00) is in the downloads.
Read Dr. Sood’s blog posts and follow @AmitSoodMD on Twitter.
Dr. Sood is director of research in the Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program on Mayo Clinic‘s Rochester campus in Minnesota. He also chairs the Mind-Body Medicine Initiative at Mayo Clinic.
