- A Cautionary Tale: Takes One to Know One

- Treatment with Drugs

- Treatment with Exercise

- Treatment with Modalities

- Treatment with Injections

- Quality Control for Pain Relief

- Excerpt from Introduction: Managing Chronic Pain: It's Complicated:

Coping with occasional pain is one thing, but long-term pain is an entirely different animal. It sits on top of you like a beast that won't be tamed. But if you don't tame it, your life could hang in the balance.

Living a functional life if you are in pain for a long time is a matter of management. This month, we examine what good pain management means, the dangers of mismanagement -- addiction, misery and even death -- and how to find the best medical care to help you -- or a loved one in pain -- to cope.