2026-11-10 from cbc.ca

Roughly half of all veterans live with chronic pain, which for women veterans is more than double the number among Canada's general population, according to a joint report from the Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans and the Canadian Pain Society.

The report, which came out in June, called for "urgent, co-ordinated action" to address gaps in care.

"We know that women veterans have different health outcomes from women civilians," said Alice Aiken, founder of the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health, and professor of physiotherapy at Dalhousie University in Halifax.

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