83% of British people recognise chronic pain as a serious medical condition, only 15% get treatment

Almost 10 million people in the UK suffer from chronic pain, which has a major impact on quality of life and day to day activities, such as work; (1) however many of those people do not have their pain under control or know how to go about seeking the right treatment. A survey, which was conducted by St. Jude Medical in collaboration with Pain UK, recently interviewed 1614 people (1090 general respondents and 524 chronic pain sufferers) and found that although chronic pain is quite prevalent, there is a general lack of awareness about what chronic pain is and how it should be treated.
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