Long Life Gives Us More Time To Hurt

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For all the progress medical science has made, physical pain remains an ineluctable part of human life. In an ABC News/USA Today/Stanford University Medical Center survey released last week, 39 percent of adults said they often experience pain. Twenty percent characterized their most recent experience with pain as “severe.” When asked to specify the location of their most recent pain, 25 percent cited their backs, with fewer pointing to the knee (12 percent), head (9 percent), shoulder (7 percent) or leg (7 percent).

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