The study hopes to eliminate the idea that pain that doesn’t respond to treatment isn’t real. Researchers hope to pinpoint what factors predispose people to chronic pain, why chronic pain continues and how poorly managed pain after surgery can turn into chronic pain.
“There is a huge social change that is happening,” said Fernando Cervero, MD, director of the Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain at McGill University, in an interview with the Vancouver Sun. “We are in a way leading, but also society is leading it. People are saying, ‘Why do we have to live with pain?'”
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