Managing Pain Doesn’t Have To Cost

Managing pain or your disability can often come with unforeseen expenses. For those needing additional services not covered by OHIP or accessible through disability claims, it can be challenging to find in-person programs in Ontario where you can get the help you need without breaking the bank.

Here’s a list of free or significantly discounted services or resources you can utilize for managing pain.

Community Centres

Many cannot afford a physiotherapist to help them manage their condition, but don’t let money be the reason for not taking care of your body. Staying active and moving can be a key strategy to helping with your pain. Many community centres offer free access to pools, fitness classes, walking tracks, and not to mention — a community! Staying active can help reduce pain, swelling, and inflammation and many times a healthcare professional can advise you on physical activities that can help you manage your condition that you can practice on your own.

To find more information about the free community centres near you, you can consult the Recreation and Parks website in or closest to your city or town, or you can call 411 for more information.

PWYC Services and Student Clinics

Some clinics and organizations recognize the expenses of self-care can be prohibitive, and offer services for those on a budget. Many Acupuncture clinics offer a sliding scale payment system ranging from $20- $40 per treatment.

A regular spa or Registered Massage Therapist can typically charge up to $150 (plus HST) for an hour massage. However, if you want to cut your expenses by more than half you can visit a massage therapy school and receive a therapeutic massage from an attentive and eager student. Check out other schools for Shiatsu and Traditional Chinese Medicine that may offer discounted rates.

With these experiences, you’ll be interacting with a supervised student who will work diligently with you to help you manage your pain and will be up-to-date with the latest techniques and technologies.

Support Groups For Managing Pain

A peer group can help to reduce a sense of isolation when experiencing pain, illness, or injury. Sharing your stories, hearing about the experiences of others, and being exposed to various resources can be an extremely helpful tool to finding ways to manage and alleviate your pain.

Many of our clients like Wanda (link to Wanda’s story) find the Toronto Fibro Support Group a place where she can go every month with any questions or concerns she has about her condition, receive support from those with a similar condition, get tactics and tips on managing her symptoms, but overall she feels she benefits most from gaining a sense of community who knows first hand what she’s experiencing.

There are support groups all over Canada for chronic pain, and many specifically for fibromyalgia, chronic pain, and depression.

*All names and identifying details have been changed to protect the confidentiality of all involved.

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A note from our long term disability lawyers

Taking a medical leave from work is not an easy decision to make. Concerns about providing for yourself and your family and keeping your job may cause you to want to push through your pain, but this won’t make your problems go away. Stopping work is often the smartest decision for your long term health and well-being, and your disability benefits are there to provide you with financial support until you can return to work.

If you have made the tough decision to stop working and apply for your short term disability or long term disability benefits, you may feel overwhelmed by the process and have questions that your employer and your insurance company are not able or willing to answer. Share is There to see you through and answer your questions.

Our Disability law firm knows what you have been going through

We understand that things have not been easy for you over the last little while. Your health has been suffering, you are unable to work, and now your insurance company, who was supposed to be there in your time of need, has decided they will not pay your disability benefits or respect your disability claim. These benefits exist to provide you with the financial support you need so that you can focus on your health and rebuilding your life. It is unfortunate that your insurance company has not lived up to its promise. If your disability claim has been denied, we will fight to get you the benefits you are entitled to. Our disability lawyers have helped thousands of Canadians get their long term disability benefits over the past 35 years, and we can help you too.

Our experienced disability lawyers can fight back on your behalf

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If you are unable to work, your disability benefits should be there to provide you with the financial support you need. While your insurance company may be focused on finding ways to avoid paying your claim, our focus is on what is in your best interest. When Share Lawyers gets involved, you have an entire team of lawyers that are there to support you and to fight for what is yours.

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In this video, we explain the role of a long term disability lawyer and how we can support you when you have been denied your long term disability benefits.