Living with chronic pain
Posted Nov 8, 2010 2:56 pm.
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“Many Canadians just think, ‘Oh well, I have this pain it’s going to go away,'” says Lynn Cooper, President of the Chronic Pain Coalition.
But Cooper tells 660News, if acute pain remains untreated, it’s status changes. It soon becomes chronic pain.”
“Once three to six months go by, and the person has been experiencing pain, what happens within the body is that there are pain pathways that are created,” says Cooper. “And this is how chronic pain is born.”
Over 6 million Canadians are living with chronic pain. This is National Pain Awareness Week, and Cooper says the more people learn about chronic pain the less people will be affected by it.
“We can get the general public to recognize that pain is a health priority,” says Cooper. So that we can get government — all governments in Canada — to recognize that something has to be done.”
Cooper adds many people don’t realize they can go to their doctor and get help.
