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Practitioners: develop the skills and confidence you need to support people self-managing their pain
Professional training for practitioners from pain self-management specialists
Develop your confidence in guiding people to self-manage their pain with this online course run over three half day sessions.
Designed and delivered by experienced practitioners and co-produced by people with lived experience of pain, the Ten Footsteps Training Programme will transform the way you work with people with pain.
Based on Live Well with Pain’s widely respected ‘ten footsteps’ approach you’ll explore the challenges most often experienced by your patients or service users, and discover effective techniques for supporting them to self-manage their pain.
The online course runs across three weekly sessions, and is accredited by the Personalised Care Institute.
Our latest course is now open for bookings. Places fill up fast so please ensure you book early.
“The resources were superb”
“Helped me put together a toolkit that I can use to support patients going forward”
“It gave me everything I needed and more”
Ten Footsteps course 31:
Begins Thursday 17 September, 9.30am–1pm
with further sessions at the same time on the following two Thursdays
Book your place here
The Health and Wellbeing Check is Live Well with Pain’s new interactive multiple-choice tool. Use it to help you:
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understand more about your pain and how it is affecting you
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discover the main obstacles to improving your quality of life
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prioritise the changes you want to make so you can get on with your life despite the pain
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.
Nutrition and pain
A collection of top nutrition tips and recipes especially designed for people with pain. Try our handy self assessment tool to help you see how you’re doing with your current diet and where you might want to make changes.
Explore our nutrition resources here:
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.
