The physics and metaphysics of chronic back pain

For a condition that is so common, back pain is yet to be fully understood. If it is not triggered by obvious physiological reasons, its causes can be difficult, inscrutable, even impossible to diagnose. “Our best understanding of low back pain is that it is a complex, biopsychosocial condition—meaning that biological aspects like structural or anatomical causes play some role but psychological and social factors also play a big role,"