"Chronic pain is pain that either persists beyond the point at which healing would be expected to be complete, or that occurs in disease processes in which healing does not take place. (...) It can be experienced by those who do not have evidence of tissue damage"
(Clinical Standards Advisory Group, 2000)
Some types of pain last a long time and, as yet, have no cure. We call these pains long-term or persistent. Unfortunately medical treatments for persistent pain do not always work as well as we would like.
People are then left with a difficult problem of continuing pain and all the negative effects pain can have on every part of life, including work, relationships, social life, mobility, mood and sleep.
Attending a pain management programme can help people cope with the challenges and difficulties that living with persistent pain brings.
If you have pain, which has continued past six months it would be defined as chronic pain.
