✦ Does pain stop you from doing the things you enjoy?
✦ Do you struggle to understand your pain?
✦ Do you want your pain to stop controlling you?
If any of these questions are true then this toolkit is for you!
THE PAIN TOOLKIT – a print version of this excellent guide to self- management by Pete Moore
TEENAGERS AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S TOOLKIT
Online Pain Toolkit website https://www.paintoolkit.org/ - available in many languages - from Africaans to Zulu!
THE NEW SOUTH WALES PAIN INFORMATION WEBSITE
great info for patients & professionals
MY BACK PAIN - A great site explaining about back pain and what to do about it.
PAIN HEALTH - How physio, movement and cognitive functional therapy can help you get pain under control
The Zone of Tolerance - when you've got chronic pain it can really cramp your style - have a look at this video to have a think about how you might be able to stretch the edges of what you can do - Watch here
Body reprogramming - provides an understanding of your condition and how best to manage it to improve health.
From Prof Hyland - Plymouth Pain Service
How much are your medications helping?
Opioids Aware - really good info from the Faculty of Pain Medicine
Pain Management Programmes
Colin Cruickshank
explains about his pain and how a pain management programme helped.
Online pain management programmes
The Pain Course from the
e-centre Clinic in Australia -
enrol in their research.
Pain Trainer – free access
to this online programme
from Duke University.
Curable from the USA has
free content and a paid
section with good advice.
You can also be referred by
a pain specialist to the
Scottish Guidelines on the management of Chronic Pain - Full Guideline and Patient Guide
Quality Prescribing for Chronic Pain
Guidelines from the Scottish Government
everyone is welcome to access this information