Newsweek’s June 4th cover story by Mary Carmichael addresses the latest medical and holistic strategies for the management of chronic pain. Have a look.

Here’s an excerpt:

The brain keeps a diary of the injuries the body receives, writing each entry by reconfiguring certain neurons into new, interconnected patterns. In healthy people, these neurons stop firing once the initial damage is fixed. But in chronic pain, they keep going long after the injury has healed. “The circuits get turned up, and they stay up. They get stuck,” says VA hospital chief Rollin Gallagher. “Most diseases are physiology gone wrong. Pain is one of them.”