{"id":2199,"date":"2023-03-29T20:12:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T20:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=2199"},"modified":"2023-03-29T20:12:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T20:12:55","slug":"chronic-pain-the-long-road-to-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=2199","title":{"rendered":"Chronic pain: the long road to discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-92.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-2200\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"920\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-92.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-92.png 920w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-92-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-92-770x434.png 770w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-92-293x165.png 293w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-92-390x220.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Philip Kass has dealt with pain for more than two decades.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Philip Kass spends 90% of his day lying on a twin bed in a sparsely decorated room that used to belong to his niece. He takes most meals with a plate balanced on his chest, and he usually watches television because reading is too stressful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m barely living,\u201d he told me on a warm night in June last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ever since a back injury 23 years ago, pain has been eating away at Kass\u2019s life. It has cost him his career, his relationships, his mobility and his independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now 55, Kass lives with his sister and her family in San Francisco, California. He occasionally joins them for dinner, which means he\u2019ll eat while standing. And once a day he tries to walk four or five blocks around the neighbourhood. But he worries that any activity, walking too briskly or sitting upright for more than a few minutes, will trigger a fresh round of torment that can take days or weeks to subside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s just paralysed me,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more here:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/immersive\/d41586-023-00869-6\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/immersive\/d41586-023-00869-6\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Kass spends 90% of his day lying on a twin bed in a sparsely decorated room that used to belong to his niece. He takes most meals with a plate balanced on his chest, and he usually watches television because reading is too stressful. \u201cI\u2019m barely living,\u201d he told me on a warm night in June last year. Ever since a back injury 23 years ago, pain has been eating away at Kass\u2019s life. It has cost him his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions\/2201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}