"One evening in the middle of a bench press, I heard a loud click in my back," author and physician Haider Warraich recalls in his new book "The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain." And this, he writes, "was the day that pain became part of my life."
Warraich's experience should be familiar to millions. The CDC estimates that one in five American adults is living with chronic pain. Many more of us will experience it at some point in our lives. Chronic pain is an exceedingly common experience, and one that is perhaps under-discussed in media and literature despite its prevalence.
