Pain is inflammation. Reduce/eliminate inflammation......What causes inflammation? An animal product diet. Go plant based, ,Inflammation will be drastically reduced if not eliminated. Did this 30 years ago with Asthma and Arthritis that no doctor was helping me enough with. By now i would be in a scooter ,If alive at all ..with an oxygen tank or suffering any other disease brought on by use of steroids, The only thing that controlled asthma symptoms, Poison really. Now at 59 i low rep a bench press of twice my bodyweight. I am a lean 170 pounds. Try it.