Papers of the Week

Society is mired in a serious health care crisis regarding the pain and opioid epidemics. Pain neuroscience education (PNE) has gained support in the last 20 years as an intervention to help people manage their chronic pain condition. In this Viewpoint, we argue exercise and movement must be the primary intervention for chronic pain conditions, and PNE or other adjunctive therapies should only be used if they can foster increased exercise and movement participation by the patient. The only time pain education should be the primary focus of a chronic pain management strategy is with students and clinicians to help advance knowledge and skills regarding pain to ultimately enhance care and outcomes for patients. .