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Pain NewsWelcome to Live Well with Pain
Please feel free to explore our website, which has been designed to help you find new ways of living well, despite your persistent pain.
Live Well with Pain is all about learning new approaches and skills that you can use in your day to day life. Our tools and resources are tried and tested – many are now regularly used across the NHS to help people to learn how to self-manage their pain.
We also encourage you to find the right support – from healthcare practitioners and others – who can work with you on your self-management journey.
That journey starts here – so please explore our resources. And for a good introduction to self-management why not start with our interactive guide: Ten footsteps to living well with pain
Explore our resources – choose one of these options:
Get top tips fast
Desperate for a good night’s sleep?
Want to reduce your pain meds?
Need help getting back to being active?
Why can’t I say what I need to my doctor?
How do I deal with feeling low?
Find out fast with Shortcuts – top tips for the things that matter most to people who are living with persistent pain.
Practitioners: order printed booklets to use with the people you support
Encourage active engagement in self-care, with LWWP’s range of simple and attractive self management guides.
What is pain self-management?
More than a third of the population live with persistent pain. It is a long term condition and cannot be ‘fixed or cured’. Traditional medical treatments such as pain medicines are now recognised as having only limited value.
Instead, a different way of living with persistent pain is growing in influence. It’s called a ‘self-management’ approach.
Thinking about reducing your pain medicines?
If you have been taking pain relieving medicines for three months or more and still have pain that is preventing you from doing what you want, then it’s likely the medicines are not working for you.
You should never simply stop taking pain medicines suddenly. But with the right kind of support and planning it is perfectly possible to reduce or stop completely. Here’s how:
Who is behind Live Well with Pain?
Live Well with Pain is run by an alliance of healthcare professionals working in pain management and people with lived experience of persistent pain.
They share a passionate belief in the power of self-management to improve life for people with pain.
By combining their professional and personal experience they have developed a range of self-management resources that have been tried and tested over many years.
They have built this website to share these resources with others.
