Chronic Pain Facts Bundle

Are you or someone you know living with chronic pain? You’re not alone. In fact, according to the National Institutes of Health, chronic pain affects an estimated 25.3 million adults in the United States alone. Sharing chronic pain facts with your online following on social media can be beneficial in many ways. Not only can it help raise awareness and build compassion for those who live with this often invisible condition, but it can also provide valuable information and support for those who may be struggling with pain themselves. So why not use your platform to make a difference? Share these chronic pain facts social media images with your following.

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1. Pain is regarded as chronic when it does not go away and is experienced by a patient on most days of the week for at least 3 months.
2. The leading cause of chronic pain is reported to be injury, commonly from playing sport, and accidents. Pain also results from chronic illnesses, degeneration and other triggers.
3. People who experience chronic pain often experience a decrease in quality of life including overall physical and emotional health; psychological and social well-being.
4. Opioids such as morphine, oxycodone, buprenorphine and fentanyl have proved useless in many cases of chronic pain.
5. When someone has chronic pain, the nerves that carry pain signals to the brain, or the brain itself, are behaving in an unusual way. The nerves might be more sensitive than usual, or the brain might be misreading other signals as pain.
6. People with chronic pain who actively manage their pain on a daily basis do better than those who rely on passive therapies such as medication or surgery.
7. Chronic pain has biopsychosocial implications. It is associated with reduced quality of life, including increased risk of anxiety and depression.
8. Did You Know? Chronic pain can take many forms: Mild To Severe, Intermittent To Continuous, Annoying To Disabling.
9. Medications, acupuncture, local electrical stimulation, and brain stimulation, as well as surgery, are some treatments for chronic pain. Some physicians use placebos, which in some cases has resulted in a lessening or elimination of pain.
10. Scientists believe that advances in neuroscience will lead to more and better treatments for chronic pain in the years to come.
11. The idea of “Radical Acceptance” can help in coping with chronic pain. This skill may be defined as accepting reality for what it is. That pain is part of your everyday life and your current option is to change how you respond to this reality.
12. Anxiety, anger, depression, and adjustment disorders are mental health issues commonly related to chronic pain. Symptoms of these disorders are experienced physically and get worse with stress.
13. It has been shown that approximately 60% of individuals diagnosed with chronic pain rely on medication. Many, however, are frustrated with the effectiveness of medications.
14. Did you know? Globally, 20% to 40% of adolescents and children suffer chronic pains.
15. There is increasing evidence that over time, untreated chronic pain eventually rewrites the central nervous system, causing pathological changes to the brain and spinal cord, and that these in turn cause greater pain.
16. Did you know? Globally, $77.8 billion is spent on treating chronic pain.
17. Did you know? Because there is no way to objectively measure chronic pain, many patients have experienced their pain being questioned, dismissed, or downplayed.
18. Did you know? The real challenges faced by someone with chronic pain are mental. Things hurt more when you’re stressed or sad, and the increased pain makes you both stressed and sad. The way out of this vicious circle is a wholesale change to how you perceive fear, suffering and setbacks.
19. Did you know? Chronic pain is now officially identified as a disease.
20. Did you know? We are beginning to live the era of biopsychosocial (BPS) views of pain considering a holistic approach or the entire person—body, mind and environment. This is the closest we’ve come to a cure for chronic pain.

Chronic Pain Facts Sources

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1. CBT for Chronic Pain and Psychological Well-Being, Dr. Mark Carlson, Ebook Page 2.
   Web source: NSW government Chronic pain management http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/pharmaceutical/doctors/Pages/chronic-pain-medical-practitioners.aspx
2. CBT for Chronic Pain and Psychological Well-Being, Dr. Mark Carlson, Ebook Page 2
   Web source: NSW government, Chronic pain management http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/pharmaceutical/doctors/Pages/chronic-pain-medical-practitioners.aspx
3. CBT for Chronic Pain and Psychological Well-Being, Dr. Mark Carlson, Ebook Page 2
4. Natural Ways to Beat Chronic Pain, WHAT DOCTORS DON’T TELL YOU, Chronic Pain, your Guide to beating it Naturally, Ebook Page 2
5. https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/chronic-pain
6. https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/chronic-pain
7. https://uspainfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Chronic-pain-facts-infographic.pdf
8. https://uspainfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Chronic-pain-facts-infographic.pdf
9. https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/All-Disorders/Chronic-Pain-Information-Page
10. https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/All-Disorders/Chronic-Pain-Information-Page
11. CBT for Chronic Pain and Psychological Well-Being, Dr. Mark Carlson, Ebook Page 19
12. CBT for Chronic Pain and Psychological Well-Being, Dr. Mark Carlson, Ebook Page 39
13. CBT for Chronic Pain and Psychological Well-Being, Dr. Mark Carlson, Ebook Page 33 to 34
14. https://kamadevayoga.com/chronic-pain-statistics/
15. The Pain Chronicles: Cures, myths, mysteries, prayers, diaries, brain scan, healing & the science of suffering (book) Melanie Thernstrom. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/chronic-pain-a-disease-in-its-own-right/
16. https://kamadevayoga.com/chronic-pain-statistics/
17. https://www.autoimmuneinstitute.org/articles/facts-about-chronic-pain/
18. How chronic pain has made me happier, Rob Heaton http://robertheaton.com/2013/03/19/how-chronic-pain-has-made-me-happie
19. IASP
20. Natural Ways to Beat Chronic Pain, WHAT DOCTORS DON’T TELL YOU, Chronic Pain, your Guide to beating it Naturally, Ebook Page 2