New ‘pain’ website for sector and consumers
A new website for consumers and healthcare professionals, Need help for your pain?, will provide much needed information and assistance to people living with chronic pain.
Launched this week by NSW Minister for Health Jillian Skinner, it represents another outcome of the carefully constructed NSW Pain Management Plan.
Developed by health practitioners and pain specialists under the leadership of the Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI) Pain Management Network, with input from consumers, the website offers the latest evidence based scientific knowledge on how to manage chronic pain, as well as information about where to go for help in New South Wales.
Dr Chris Hayes, ACI Pain Management Network co-chair, says the overall aim of the website is to empower consumers and healthcare professionals working in the community setting.
Designed as a ‘one stop shop’, it includes online resources that promote self-management and help people retrain their brain's response to chronic pain; practical tools and resources to improve sleep and mood; information about medications; inspirational testimonies from chronic pain patients, as well as modules designed specifically for adolescents.
For healthcare professionals, the website includes assessment and management tools, fact sheets to share with patients, and information about NSW pain clinics.
Visitors to the website can access:
- Interactive learning and self-management modules for adolescents with chronic pain
- Online resources that promote self-management to help people to retrain their brain's response to chronic pain
- Inspirational videos of people young and old sharing their experience of how adopting an evidence based approach to pain made a real difference to their daily lives
- Practical tools and resources to help people with chronic pain to improve daily sleep and mood, guidance on the role of pain medication and the importance of healthy lifestyles
- A health professional toolkit that includes assessment and management tools for doctors and healthcare professionals working in the community, factsheets for patients and information on NSW Pain Clinics.
Visit the Need help for your pain? website.
