I treated a lot of high-stress, hard-working individuals in my career. And across all of them — different ages, different jobs, different fitness levels — I kept seeing the same presentation: pain that didn't have a clear structural explanation. Pain that came and went, moved around, got worse under stress, and didn't respond the way typical musculoskeletal issues do. When I dug deeper, there was almost always a common thread: burnout. Not burnout in the vague, overused sense

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