Chronic Pain Awareness Month

Chronic pain has far-reaching effects.

Chronic pain directly affects the patient via pain, fatigue and other symptoms.

Chronic pain directly affects the patient via reduced or eliminate income and social isolation resulting from disability.

Chronic pain indirectly affects family members via family role reversal, reduced or eliminated income, and the patient retracting from social activities due to pain and other symptoms.

Chronic pain indirectly affects society via the reduction or complete loss of work-related production and payment of taxes by the increasing disability of the patient.

Chronic pain affects employers and co-workers when the patient cannot produce as they once did and co-workers must take up the slack, via reduced days at work or increased sick days.

There are many more ways society is indirectly impacted by the growing epidemic of untreated and/or undertreated pain.