As a massage therapist and a Pilates instructor in the city, I would see some clients with the same pain every time I saw them. And it wasn't that I wasn't a good therapist. They would see lots of experts, and it didn't matter which treatments they had, they reported the same pain. With other clients, their pain relief was more simple. They would regularly attend Pilates, do more exercise which could just be walking, change their desk set up and do more activities, which relaxed them. I used to think the more new techniques I could learn, the more I would be able to help those clients with more persistent pain. But I think less about my own techniques now, and more about the state of mind of the clients in persistent pain. Quite a few years ago, I remember one of my colleagues was in so much pain she actually couldn't sit down at her desk. She was relatively young, she hadn't had a fall or a fracture, she hadn't pulled a muscle or torn a disc ligament...