From muscle strain to a sore stomach, pain is often an inescapable part of life. Chronic pain, however, can drastically change a life.

Whether your chronic pain is due to an injury or an illness, it can wreak havoc on nearly every major domain of your existence. Not only can it render simply getting through the day a challenge, but it may also prevent you from performing the activities you love, take a toll on your ability to work and function, test your interpersonal relationships, and lead to poor sleep, prolonged stress and depression.

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