Learn new ways to live a better, fuller life, despite your pain

At Live Well with Pain, we know that living with persistent pain can impact on every aspect of your life, even to the point where it feels like it has become your life.

Self-management looks at all these parts of your life and offers ways to make changes so you can get more out of your life.
It’s about discovering new ways to deal with the effects of pain on your life, learning new skills, and ‘taking back control.’

 

Getting your life back

As anyone living with pain knows, pain doesn’t only have a physical impact. It affects your mood, it disrupts sleep patterns and daily activities. It impacts on your family and friendships and your ability to work. In other words pain affects every aspect of your life.
While it may be true that persistent pain can’t be cured, there are many other parts of your life where changes can be made.
As someone living with pain has put it: “self-management is about shrinking the part of your life that is about pain, and growing the other parts of your life, so that pain no longer dominates.”

Explore our resources – choose one of these options:

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Working together

Learning to self-manage your pain takes time. It will mean learning new skills. So it’s often better to get help and support. GPs, physiotherapists, pharmacists and a whole range of other practitioners can guide you in this.
Some healthcare professionals may already be using Live Well with Pain’s resources for practitioners. This gives them a range of tools and techniques to support people like you to become a confident self-manager of your pain.
Tell your GP or other member of your heath care team that you want to find out more about self-managing your pain. They will be able to guide you explore ways of doing this.

Always trusted, always free

Live Well with Pain’s resources offer tried, tested, and effective ways to develop your confidence to self manage your pain.
And everything is completely free to use, whether you are a person living with persistent pain, a carer, or a health care professional supporting people to develop their self management skills.
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