App may change way patients, physicians approach chronic pain

DENVER — Curable started with 15 years of back pain and an openness to try whatever it took to make it go away, even if that meant reading a book.

What started as a herniated disk at age 19 led to years of chronic pain for chief executive John Gribbin, who at age 34 finally read a book at the recommendation of a friend about dealing with chronic pain not via surgery or medication but psychologically.

That book ultimately led to him changing the way he thought about his pain and led to its decrease. And…