Treating Chronic Pain is Hard. An Experimental Approach Shows Promise.

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Sometimes the pain seemed like lightning. Or snake bites. Or needles. “Imagine the worst burn you’ve ever had, all over your body, that’s never going to heal,” said Ed Mowery, 55, describing his life with chronic pain. “I woke up in the middle of the night, screaming at every lung.” Starting with a severe knee injury he suffered playing football at age 15, he underwent some 30 major surgeries for various injuries over the decades, including proc…