Paul Roos has been living with chronic pain for the last 10 years — a direct result of injuries he sustained while serving as an infantry officer in the Canadian Armed Forces.

Roos, who is also the director of operations with the Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans in Hamilton, Ont., says chronic pain is a condition affecting roughly 20 per cent of Canadians. It’s pain that persists longer than three months after an injury.

“When I served in the Canadian Armed Forces, I had a couple of injuries, and some of them have some lingering problems, including chronic pain,” Roos told