Thanks to the Canadian Pain Society for featuring my #ArtDespitePain #ChronicPain awareness & patient advocacy activities - using creativity to manage my own #pain & to raise awareness for all who suffer with it 🎯
Great to see this during National Pain Awareness Week #npaw2023 💥

A Painful Bruise Wouldn’t Heal. It Took Several Hospital Visits to Discover Why. (Published 2018) It started when a paint can fell on the patient’s foot. But it got worse and worse from there.

For National Pain Awareness Week #npaw2023 🍁
An article by Dr. Lisa Sanders on one of my two #rarediseases - #crps
"Recovery takes months, even years."
Or, in some cases, the condition becomes permanent & debilitating #chronicpain 🔥
www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/m...

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), formerly known as causalgia and reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome, is a broad term describing excess and prolonged pain and inflammation that can occur follo...

It's #crpsOrangeDay & National Pain Awareness Week #npaw2023 🍁
#CRPS is best known for "excess & prolonged #pain & inflammation that can occur following an injury or other medical event such as surgery, trauma, stroke, or heart attack.
www.ninds.nih.gov/health-infor...

#artdespitepain

A closer look at how chronic conditions are impacting benefits plans | Benefits Canada.com In 2022, some of the top chronic conditions affecting group benefits plans were diabetes, obesity, depression and arthritis. Diabetes was the No. 1 ranked condition for drug claims in 2022, knocking r...

It's National Pain Awareness Week #NPAW2023 in Canada, so I'll be sharing info on different aspects of #chronicpain 🍁
This is from "Benefits Canada", an HR magazine:
"severe #pain, fatigue & mood changes can impact people’s #mentalhealth as well..."
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www.benefitscanada.com/archives_/be...