Patient Guide for Acute Low Back Pain
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Health Quality Ontario: Get High Quality Care with an Episode of Acute Low Back Pain There’s a lot of misinformation out there about what happens when low back pain occurs. This resource from Health Quality Ontario will help to ensure you can … Read More

Patient Perspectives @ The San Diego Pain Summit
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Living With Pain: the Patient’s Perspective The following presentation gives voice to the patient and shows clinicians how patients perceive their care. Guests share their experiences with musculoskeletal therapists about trying to find a healthcare practitioner to listen to their journey … Read More

Pain and Scans
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When The Scans Are Clean Have you visited your doctor about back or shoulder pain, had a scan and been told that there is nothing that can be found to explain your symptoms? That’s a pretty common experience, but can … Read More

What Does A Skeptic Look Like?
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  I outed myself as a skeptic at the recent 2018 INCAM Research Symposium titled Complementary and Integrative Medicine Research in an Era of Skepticism. I’m used to coming out. I have to come out as queer on a frequent … Read More

What Does it Mean To PACE Activity For Pain?
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  Dr. Bronnwyn Thompson outlines what the literature says about pacing and some ways in which it can be helpful. “Pacing is an active self-management strategy whereby individuals develop self-efficacy through learning to balance time spent on activity and rest for … Read More

Pacing and Goal Setting for Pain Management
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Pacing and goal setting are important parts of management for people with persistent pain. Here is a recent and very detailed overview of pacing from the National Health Service in the UK. Why set a pace? Pacing Is a technique … Read More

Pain BC – Breaking Down the Barriers
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Pain BC is a resource for people with persistent pain and their healthcare providers. Their Mission “Improve the lives of people in pain through education, empowerment, and innovation. Promote prevention and early intervention in chronic pain and pain-related disability Educate, … Read More

Brainman – Explains Pain in Five Minutes
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We now realize that understanding pain is not as easy or simple as once thought. It used to be that if the scan showed disc disease we would consider that as a cause for the pain. Though the changes we … Read More

Pain-Ed: For You and Your Healthcare Team
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Pain-Ed was developed to inform the public and health care practitioners about the latest pain research; to dispel common myths about pain; and to provide hope for change. Patient Stories A series of patient stories to provide hope to people … Read More

The Retrain Pain Foundation
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The Retrain Pain Foundation provides free online pain education to the public. They believe that pain patients throughout the world deserve access to accurate and up to date information about pain rehabilitation. The courses have been translated into over 20 languages. … Read More

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