Ervaringsverhalen
All our employees are people with chronic pain. So they know what having chronic pain means to you. After all, they experience it themselves every day. So they are all experts by experience. They also know that if you have chronic pain you can still live an active and quality life. Curious about how this can be done? Read the stories below or contact us op.
The story of Conny
In 1997, I almost fell on my road bike. If only I had fallen. Anyway, you never know, of course. That left me with post traumatic dystrophy, CRPS and nowadays I think it's called something else again. I was a year on before I got that...
People who want to be more than pain have to work hard
That's not easy with a body that hurts.If you want a better life despite your pain, you have to learn a lot but also give up a lot. You have to do a lot but also leave a lot of thingsIt's like TOP sport. You need a coach but also supporters....
25 years active for Pain Hope
29 August 1996: I had spent that day varnishing my boat's gangway. The next day, I would do it again and when it was almost dry, sprinkle it with bird sand so that it would be slippery. On the next day, I went to walk the dog, and what...
Interview with one of the founders of Pain Hope
How did chronic pain start for you? For myself, it started with a fall from a piano stool when I wanted to grab something from a cupboard. After years of searching for a solution against the pains how to deal with it, I was pointed out by the pain clinic in Leiden
My experiences with Pain Hope
After visiting the UMCG in Groningen, I saw a leaflet from Stichting Pijn-Hoop. At home, I immediately phoned the number of the leaflet. The phone number turned out to be that of the chairwoman. She told me that a course would start soon about...
My search for peer contact
In 2005, I first developed chronic pain in my left leg, from my buttock to my toes. The neurologist said an alarm had gone off in my body because I was constantly going beyond my limits. If I didn't make changes in terms of lifestyle...
What Pain Hope means to me
During a wedding of 2 cadres in the water scouts on 2 April 1968, I received a gigantic hard blow with an oar in my face; after the necessary surgeries, I continued to suffer from facial pain but, unfortunately, increasing neck pain. Since I ...