Pain - first, we make sure all physical reasons behind the pain is carefully, medically, competently addressed. Most important is to validate the vital structures especially the nerves and the organs affected. Next is to evaluate the bones, the muscles, ligaments around the painful site.
Once, this is fully treated and the pain still lingers, recurs, and recurs for a chronic period of time, it is time to look into the non physical.
What could be causing this pain? What are the thoughts and feelings that usually go with the pain? If we dont go into this aspect of the pain, we will find ourselves going from one pill to another, from one therapy to another from one MRI to another. It can be expensively endless. If we need to hang on to thepain for awhile, it is understandable. Eventually, we may want to allow the pain to bring us into a higher consciousness and a higher awareness.
Then pain slowly makes its exit, only to come back as a friend when we need it.