11/19/2025
Chronic pain stole 24% of us.
And the worst part? Most people think it’s just about damaged tissue or old injuries that never quite healed right.
Chronic pain has increased by 13 percent over the past two years and has led to the death of over 24 percent of the U.S. population... let that sink in.
Your brain can get stuck in pain mode.
Even after the original injury heals, your nervous system keeps firing the same signals over and over and over, like a smoke alarm that won’t shut off even though the fire’s been out for months. This is neuroplasticity working against you, your brain literally rewiring itself around pain instead of healing.
And here’s what makes this so frustrating when I see it in practice.
The typical medical approach is to mask the pain with medication, stronger and stronger doses, which never addresses why your nervous system is stuck broadcasting these signals in the first place. You’re just turning down the volume on the alarm instead of shutting it off.
Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum, one of the leading specialists in chronic pain conditions, points to something critical... the focus should be prevention, asking better questions before you’re in full crisis mode.
Questions like:
→ What’s my nervous system actually doing right now?
→ Where is it stuck in fight-or-flight?
→ How do I interrupt this pattern before it becomes permanent wiring?
In our practice at Life Family Chiropractic, we use InSight scans to measure exactly this. Where your nervous system is stressed, where it’s compensating, where it’s stuck firing pain signals that have nothing to do with current tissue damage.
Because once you can see the pattern, you can interrupt it.
Pain isn’t always about fixing what’s broken.
Sometimes it’s about retraining what’s stuck... and your nervous system is incredibly adaptable. It learned the pain pattern which means it can unlearn it too, but only if someone’s paying attention to the neurological side instead of just throwing pills at symptoms.
Like and comment if you know someone living with chronic pain who deserves a different approach than “take this and call me in six months.”
