... alternative practitioners).•Daily activity (straining, getting up, lying down,sitting, standing, coughing, drinking).•Exercise (running, walking).•Feelings (anxiety, tiredness, anger).•Environment ... repeated. This leads to theinteresting, yet counter-intuitive scenario, in whichallowing oneself to experience pain might be instru-mental in leading towards better outcome.Coping behaviours have ... patients attendingpain clinics in North Britain, surgery was assessed ascontributing to pain in 22.5% of all patients seen. It wassecond only to degenerative disease in the causation ofpain. Surgery...