What if everything you thought you knew about pain turned out to be wrong, or only half the truth?In The Meaning of Pain, renowned osteopath Nick Potter draws on 25 years of clinical experience and success stories from his consulting room to present a radical new understanding of pain and why we feel it.Pain is nature s way of alerting us to danger, and chronic pain is often a sign that something is out of balance in our lives, a symptom as much of stress as any physical injury.In this sage and enlightening book, Potter presents a roadmap for wellbeing, based on a new and well-evidenced holistic model of pain science, and shows us how to break the vicious cycle of stress, pain and anxiety before the damage is done.