November 3-9, 2024, is National Pain Awareness Week – a week dedicated to drawing attention to chronic pain and the devastating impact it can have on people’s lives. The broader goal is to advocate for early, effective treatment of this condition and promote further education to better understand it. I am astounded by the number of people living with chronic pain in our country. According …
Everyone experiences pain. When you get a paper cut, for example, it hurts, and this is a normal response from your nervous system, which alerts you to the injury so that you can tend to it. This typical experience of pain is called acute pain.
In this case, a formal diagnosis of chronic pain was not required for removal from the MIG.
The treatment and management of chronic pain is complex. Part of the reason for this complexity is that the pain experience is deeply personal. Simply put, everyone experiences pain differently. Remarkably, our thoughts and feelings can affect our body’s chemistry and our response to pain.
Court orders production of expert’s and assessment centre’s records despite defence’s claim of litigation privilege.
This action arose from a 2015 rear end motor vehicle collision. Liability was admitted. The issues at trial were threshold and damages. The defendant took the position that the plaintiff sustained minor soft tissue injuries which resolved within six months of the accident and she had returned to most, if not all of her pre-accident activities…
