Windows on Pain Day

1 in 5 Australians suffer from persistent or chronic pain - severe pain that continues day after day, night after night, long after healing from an injury, surgery or other condition that has been treated in the best possible way.

Persistent pain is among the top five most costly healthcare problems in Australia. The human cost on individuals and families is also significant since many of these Australians currently bear more than half the cost themselves. Pain can interfere with their daily lives, ability to work, relationships, health and can be so debilitating that it leads to suicidal thoughts or actions.

MBF is proud to support the inaugural Windows on Pain Day on 6th June - a fundraising and awareness initiative of the University of Sydney’s Pain Management Research Institute (www.pmri.med.usyd.edu.au)

Windows on Pain Day focuses on raising the public profile of persistent pain as a disease in the community; the need to better support patients with persistent pain and, the importance of more research in this area.

24 artists have expressed their personal visualisations of pain on works done on panes of glass. The donated works will be auctioned off at the Windows on Pain Fundraising Dinner on Wednesday 11 June.

For more information about Windows on Pain please visit  www.windowsonpain.org