CBC Reporter Susana da Silva has written an important article which will be a first in a series focused on Chronic Pain. The article is noteworthy because it focuses on an important part of any chronic pain practice: Education and understanding.
This article looks at the struggles Susana faced with her father’s un-diagnosed neuropathic pain condition and how a lack of education meant a very long and hard struggle to diagnose the problem.
Like Susana’s father, many of our chronic pain patients come to Allevio after being referred to a number of different facilities. Others also come because another specialist has identified their symptoms and thought that the pain-relief procedures Allevio offers may help them.
Allevio Pain Management’s chronic pain clinic in Toronto has programs being developed to help patients and physicians better understand chronic pain. Allevio also offers continuing medical education to physicians whenever we can.
We will be posting the other articles in the series as they become available. We hope that all of our readers are continually asking the tough questions and seeking the right answers in the area of chronic pain.
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