Experts on chronic pain say treatments don't have to include expensive surgeries or procedures.

"Where you process pain in your brain, where you process physical pain is actually the same place that your brain processes emotional pain, social pain- and a lot of patients don't realize that," said Stacy Ogbeide, a clinical health psychologist at UT Health San Antonio.

In this episode, she explains behavioral interventions her patients use to help manage their chronic pain.

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