Chronic pain has extensive layers and we often use the iceberg analogy to explain this to our patients. The pain one often feels is just visual part above water. What’s lurking below is often much more complex. By the time you step into a medical office to seek care your body has built up multiple layers of problems. Our bodies are amazing machines, and because of that we only tend to notice the primary problem. Imagine noticing every single ache, pain, or discomfort. You’d go crazy!