PAIN BC

Biography

Pain BC aims to enhance the well-being of all people living with pain through empowerment, care, education and innovation. This can't be done without changing the systems that people in pain rely on to live well.

Pain BC’s goals are:
• Prevent persistent pain and intervene early to reduce its impacts
• Empower people who live with pain to enhance wellbeing
• Educate health care providers to better assess and manage pain
• Improve the systems that impact people in pain, communities and society
• Combat stigma and its negative effects
• Foster research on pain and pain-related disability