Ottawa – Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience typically associated with physical damage to the body. Chronic pain is when the pain lasts longer than 3 months. Sometimes chronic pain can occur: without a known cause after an injury has healed after a condition has been treated The World Health Organization now recognizes chronic pain as a disease …
Ottawa – This month was International Pain Awareness Month, a time dedicated to improving our understanding of chronic pain, an often invisible condition that affects one in five Canadians across the country. That’s roughly eight million Canadians, ranging from children to older adults, whose quality of life can be severely impacted for months, even years, because of pain. It could be …
