“The pain was always there”, the evil that medicine tries to mitigate | Society | America Edition

Sport was for Stephanie Fahmel, as for many, the escape route from daily stress; however, one day everything changed with an untimely sprain that caused damage that was always present. Like many other Latin Americans, she suffered from chronic pain, an illness that medicine seeks to reverse or mitigate.

“That pain was always there and was part of my normal life,” Fahmel explains to Efe, who recalls that, having dinner with friends, working or simply sleeping, the pain was constant.