“Since the medical establishment is not set up to take a comprehensive approach to your care, it’s crucial to take your care into your own hands.” -Dr. David Hanscom br Dr. David Hanscom is an orthopedic surgeon, who has discovered that surgery is not always the cure to pain. Chronic pain is debilitating, causing stress on relationships, jobs and anxiety and depression. After seeing that surgery didn’t always answer the pain problem Dr. Hanscom found other ways to work at the root cause. He began to implement a program to help his patients, which he has laid out in his book “Back in Control: A Spine Surgeon’s Roadmap out of Chronic Pain.”