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Article: Cast a wide net with chronic pain.(prevention in action)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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Chronic pain cuts wide. One out of every five people lives with some sort of chronic pain. Of that 20%, one-third are not able or are only minimally able to maintain an independent lifestyle because of it, according to the International Association for the Study of Pain.
And chronic pain cuts deep. Beneath the veneer of the physical symptoms lies the social, emotional, and psychological havoc caused by the associated disability, isolation, fear, and helplessness, which leads to a substantially diminished quality of life.
Unfortunately, chronic pain is also invisible. There's no gash to suture, no broken leg to set. Instead, there exists an amorphous ...