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