Dr. Sanjay Gupta

I think certainly how we move, how we nourish ourselves and how we rest, I think are things that are important with all chronic diseases, but especially with pain.

And I think the idea that as a general rule, if you're told that you're in pain, you're told to

not move, to sort of stay still.

And I think the data is very clear on this, that that's not the right answer.

Look, if you have a broken foot or something like that, no one's telling you to walk on that.

But for the most part, movement is really important.

This is an acronym, and it's to be sort of a countermeasure to the RICE protocol, if you sprain your ankle, for example.

So RICE is Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation.

First of all, mobilizing...

which is the M in meat, then exercising, continuing to actually be actively moving, analgesia or pain medication if you need it, and treatment.

such as physical therapy, things like that, tend to be much better in terms of preventing chronic pain.

So might it hurt more in the moment to not ice it, compress it, elevate it?

Yeah, it might.

But what you're trading off is a decreased likelihood of developing chronic pain.

When I was working on the book, I really wanted to try and answer a question, which was, who is more likely to develop chronic pain?

So, you know, it seemed like a fair question.

Not everyone develops chronic pain, despite the numbers as high as they are.

Most people don't develop chronic pain, but who is?

And I started talking to these researchers, and they were asking the same question.

And one of the things they found was