The World Health Organization recognizes chronic pain

On January 1st of 2022, the World Health Organization unveiled their new classification standards for diseases. For the first time ever, they have recognized chronic pain as a condition. In this month’s episode of the Pain Waves podcast, we’re joined by Maria Hudspith, the co-chair of the Canadian Pain Task Force, and Rolf Detlef-Treede, who lead the work on the WHO recognition of chronic pain. They explain what the ICD-11 is and how it could improve care for those living with chronic pain.

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The World Health Organization recognizes chronic pain is an episode from Pain Waves by Pain Waves by Pain BC.

This episode is 24:20 long.

This episode was published on Mar 1, 2022.

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