How to live with pain?

How to live with pain?

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By: Caroline Paré Follow

1 min

Back pain, migraine, painful periods… These acute, chronic, occasional, frequent pains can make patients experience a real ordeal, cause bouts of fatigue and develop into depression.

For patients, it is not always easy to express how they feel about pain.

For their part, doctors sometimes have difficulty finding the right treatment.

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On the occasion of the 17th World Pain Day, which takes place on the 3rd Monday of October, we take stock of this invisible disease.

With :

• Dr Carole Séréni,

  neurologist, former head of clinic at Paris hospitals and former head of department at Léopold Bellan hospital.

  Co-responsible for the multidisciplinary consultation on chronic pain at Saint-Joseph hospital in Paris.

  Author of the books

  Les mots de la migraine

  and

  Chronic pain and opiates

  published by Cerf.

• Dr Julie Kyelem

  , neurologist and epileptologist at CHU Yalgadao Ouedraogo in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. 

At the end of the program, we take stock of a double gene therapy against sickle cell disease with

, professor of hematology at Paris-Descartes University, head of the department of innovative therapeutics at Necker Enfants Malades hospital in Paris and coordinator of the clinical investigation center in biotherapy at the Imagine Institute in Necker.

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