Why over-diagnosis can delay recovery from chronic pain

If you’ve been living with chronic pain, you’ve likely sought multiple opinions, tests, and labels.

But what if too much diagnosis is part of the problem? In the search for answers, it’s easy to fall into a cycle of medical over-investigation that may hinder rather than help your recovery.

Over-diagnosis - the identification of conditions that are unlikely to cause symptoms or harm - is increasingly recognized as a major barrier to healing for people with chronic pain.