An exploration of why people all over the world love to engage in pain on purpose--from dominatrices, religious ascetics, and ultramarathoners to ballerinas, ic

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This book presents an interpretation of the nature of musculoskeletal pain. It describes aclassification system for assessment and treatmentof musculoskeletal p

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