Many people across the world suffer from chronic pain. In recent studies, chronic pain has shown to have significant success with CBT. However, could results possibly be improved by combining it with physical therapy? If so does it have greater success than CBT or physical therapy alone?
An estimated 100 million U.S. adults suffer from chronic pain (Institute of Medicine, 2011), a condition influenced by biological, psychological, and social factors and optimally managed by treatments that address not only its biological causes but also its psychological and social influences and consequences. Chronic pain is generally defined as pain persisting past the normal healing