The Importance of Understanding Pain

The understanding of that person's pain is real. They're experiencing something real. My uncle passed away recently. He was a quadriplegic and he would get ghost pain, you know, limb pain from something he hasn't thought. And we have to understand the same thing for an athlete. We can't look at an athlete and say, it's all in your head because what they're experiencing, they're experiencing very acutely - whether it's created from a cut in our arm or it's created in the mind,. It's very real and we have to treat it as such.