September 22nd, 2011
The OPENMinds report underlines the necessity of addressing chronic pain urgently.
Today a team of European pain experts issued an official report urging governments to take stronger measures towards preventing chronic pain and treating the 146.6 million Europeans who suffer from it.
Every year chronic back pain alone costs the British economy a staggering £12.3 billion. Costs are incurred from employee absenteeism, disability benefits and costs of medication on the National Health Service.
Experts are troubled by the sheer volume of people suffering from chronic pain in communities across the UK. Research carried out in 2003 shows that 1/3 of all sufferers have been left untreated.
Chronic pain is pain that lasts for weeks, months and sometimes years. It can drastically reduce the quality of an individual’s life and lead to other problematic conditions such as depression.
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January 13th, 2011
According to a recent study looking into services available for those with chronic pain, the NHS is only employing one specialist for every 32,000 sufferers.
The report, which includes experiences taken from 4,400 members of the public, revealed that more than a quarter had suffered with chronic pain at some point during the past five years and of those only 23 per cent had been referred to a specialist who manages pain.
Chronic pain is characterised by a continuous pain which lasts for a period of twelve weeks or more and it is estimated to affect around eight million Brits on a daily basis.
Additional findings highlighted in the report included one third of patients not knowing how to take their medication correctly, only one in four chronic sufferers having ever been referred for specialist care and more than half...
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September 30th, 2010
A recent report investigating chronic pain has found that the eight million sufferers in Britain will have to wait an average of six years for a diagnosis and an additional three years before their condition is adequately managed, reports the Telegraph.
The survey, which incorporated 2,251 British individuals with chronic pain found that a quarter of those were depressed and four in 10 were unable to work as a result of their condition.
In a report sponsored by the drug company Pfizer it was also found that British chronic pain sufferers waited double that of sufferers in Italy, France and Belgium for a diagnosis.
If you are suffering from chronic pain and your condition is either not being treated or you have a long wait before you are due receive treatment then it may be worth pursuing other options in the meantime which could help to relieve your pain.
Various research has shown that hypnotherapy significantly and consistently...
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