pain

No pain, all gain. From yoga to listening to music, the latest pain cures you can do all on your own.

Stephanie Clayton, 10, can be climbing a tree in Toronto one minute and doubled over on the ground the next.

Barbara Stowe, 56, was a professional dancer in Vancouver before chronic pain ended her career.

Shelley Churchill, 26, is a student in Mount Pearl, N.L., who still feels pain in the leg she lost at age five.

Anyone who has ever endured the misery of a migraine or the agony of an infected tooth can easily relate to the images of a pounding hammer or a merciless drill. It’s as if the pain itself assumes a shape or an active image separate from the intensity of physical suffering that it engenders.