Mel Pohl, MD, a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, has focused his career on investigating this connection. Dr. Pohl’s work with hundreds of patients has shown the important role that clinicians have in reducing chronic physical pain by using tools such as biofeedback, mindfulness-based stress reduction, and yoga—interventions that often are more effective and have a greater impact on reducing physical pain than traditional opioid-based therapy.