From National Post: For chronic pain sufferers, finding comprehensive care through Canada’s medical system to address pain management continues to be a challenge, a new survey suggests.

An October 2010 online survey of 1,717 Canadians 18 years old and over, 818 of whom were classified as chronic pain sufferers, examined the overall outlook of chronic pain patients toward their condition and toward the lack of health care resources available to them.

While 57% of chronic pain sufferers said their condition had been diagnosed, and of that number 21% said they suffered from arthritis, more than half (53%) of the respondents said they do not follow their health care providers’ pain management instructions, because they had received conflicting information from different health care providers.

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Chronic pain sufferers not getting care needed, online survey finds.