Back in December of 2011 on the Veterans Affairs Web site, there was a posting about chronic pain. The entry is titled “Chronic Pain and PTSD: a Guide for Patients". It is brief, approximately 8 paragraphs long. It helps to define what chronic pain is, and demonstrates how common it is, stating that approximately one in three Americans suffer chronic pain in their lifetime. The link between PTSD and chronic pain is made with a few interesting statistics:

- 15%-35% of patients with chronic...