Programmes and courses for living with pain

Living with chronic pain can be exhausting. The following programmes are designed to help you gain a better understanding of your pain and enable you to develop skills to reduce your symptoms so you can bet get back to living the life you want to live.

Pain toolkit

 

For more resources visit the Pain Toolkit website, by patients, for patients. 

Pain self-management programmes

Pain Management Network undefined
  • A website designed to help you gain a better understanding of your pain. 
  • Contains information to enable you to develop skills and knowledge in the self-management of your pain in partnership with your healthcare providers.
  • You will hear from other people, just like you and learn how they too have lived with chronic pain.
  • The website has a number of episodes which should be viewed over several days to weeks.
  • If anyone has concerns viewing or reading the material they should consult their doctor or health professional.
  • If you are a young person with chronic pain, there's a youth channel with episodes for you to work through with a range of exercises and useful tips throughout.
Organisation NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI) – Pain Management Network 
Target group Caters to everyone: Youth, adults, elderly and clinician
Contact Details email: info@aci.health.nsw.gov.au for further information
Location / Dates N/A: Online courses including video episodes, resources and useful links. 
Evidence-base Information obtained from a range of health professionals – See the acknowledgements page

Pain Programme
A popular pain programme is now available in the Auckland region. This is based on the Stanford Programme and specifically for people with chronic pain. (Weekly sessions of 2.5 hours for 6 weeks)
Organisation ProCare Health
Target group Adults with on-going pain
Contact Details email:  life@procare.co.nz for further course information
Location / Dates Auckland wide (if you know of any anywhere else, let us know)
Evidence-base Based on the well researched Stanford Model from Stanford University.

Retrain Pain Foundation

Free online course which teaches a science-based approach for reducing symptoms and helping people get back the life they want to live. undefined 

Organisation

Retrain Pain Foundation

Target group

Anyone with on-going pain

Contact Details

email:  elan@retrainpain.org for further course information

Location / Dates

Free online course. Can be taken at anytime

Evidence-base

Retrain Pain was founded by three New York-based physical therapists (Elan Schneider, Rob DiLillo, and Greg Hullstrung). Greg and Rob are the owners of H&D Physical Therapy.  Elan is a clinician specialising in the treatment of chronic pain. He is the director of the chronic pain treatment program at H&D Physical Therapy and is an adjunct faculty member at the State University of New York.
Credits: Editorial team.