Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Pauline Couture has lived with chronic knee pain for nearly 30 years after. At the Rehabilitation Pain Service at UHN's Toronto Rehab, world-renowned pain specialist Dr. Andrea Furlan diagnosed her with nociplastic pain — a type of chronic pain caused by faulty processing in the brain.
Pain reprocessing therapy — a combination of education, physical exercises and cognitive strategies — helped Pauline shift her brain's response to pain and walk without pain.
Read the full story: uhn.ca/corporate/News/Pages/pain-reprocessing-therapy-helping-uhn-patients-overcome-hard-to-treat-chronic-pain.aspx
UHN is Canada's No. 1 hospital and the world's No. 1 publicly funded hospital. With 10 sites and more than 20,000 members of TeamUHN, UHN consists of Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, The Michener Institute of Education at UHN and West Park Healthcare Centre. As Canada's top research hospital, the scope of research and complexity of cases at UHN have made it a national and international source for discovery, education and patient care.
Pauline Couture has lived with chronic knee pain for nearly 30 years after. At the Rehabilitation Pain Service at UHN's Toronto Rehab, world-renowned pain specialist Dr. Andrea Furlan diagnosed her with nociplastic pain — a type of chronic pain caused by faulty processing in the brain.
Pain reprocessing therapy — a combination of education, physical exercises and cognitive strategies — helped Pauline shift her brain's response to pain and walk without pain.
Read the full story: uhn.ca/corporate/News/Pages/pain-reprocessing-therapy-helping-uhn-patients-overcome-hard-to-treat-chronic-pain.aspx
UHN is Canada's No. 1 hospital and the world's No. 1 publicly funded hospital. With 10 sites and more than 20,000 members of TeamUHN, UHN consists of Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, The Michener Institute of Education at UHN and West Park Healthcare Centre. As Canada's top research hospital, the scope of research and complexity of cases at UHN have made it a national and international source for discovery, education and patient care.
