Chronic pain doesn’t make sense. I mean, pain is meant to be a message or a warning, and then it’s meant to fade away and everything’s meant to go back to normal, right? Chronic pain doesn’t. It hangs around nagging away at everything you do. It doesn’t make any sense.

If you want to get on with life, though, you really need to sort a few things out about your pain otherwise you’re likely to keep worrying about it, getting frustrated and annoyed looking for answers that don’t appear.

To make sense of pain you need to: