Pain Toolkit - For people who live with persistent pain

Pain Toolkit Interactive Workshops

For Patients & Health & Social Care Practitioners

1.) Pain Toolkit workshops for patients

Many people in the world live with day-to-day pain. Pain may be spelt differently… Dhimbje; ցավ; ağrı; боль; ব্যথা; болка; dolor; 疼痛; bol; bolest; smerte; pijn; valu; sakit; kipu; douleur; dor; schmerz; πόνος; પીડા; doulè; ददद; fájdalom; verkir; Péine; dolore; 痛み; ನ ೋವು; 통증; sāpes; skausmas; kesakitan; uġigħ; ból; durere; боль; бол; bolesť; bolečina; maumivu; smärta; வலி; నొప్పి; ความเจ็บปวด ; ağrı; đau; and poen.

But no matter where you come from, pain can cause many problems, which are the same in any language, and it can stop you from doing what you want to do.

It is it possible to live a full life in spite of pain? Yes, it is, and I and many others who follow and practice pain self-management skills are living proof that you can as well.

To learn simple pain self-management skills, you will need a Toolkit, a Pain Toolkit and we have developed a friendly and informative half-day (3.5hrs) workshop to help and support you get started. Click here to see what you will learn on the workshop

2.) Pain Toolkit for Health & Social Care Practitioners

Health and Social Care Practitioners told us they wanted the Toolkit Team to develop workshops for both themselves, where they could utilise the tools from the Toolkit, learn more self-management skills to support themselves and their patients.

We have developed a full day, interactive workshops for Health and Social Care Practitioners - Please click here to see the Pain Toolkit workshop overview.

The workshop is for all health and social care practitioners who work in Community, Primary, Secondary and Social Care to increase their awareness of the benefits of pain self- management and promote teamwork between the health care professional and the patient.

For more information and regarding fees and the please complete the short form below and one of the Pain Toolkit Team will contact you to discuss in more detail.

3.) Half-day workshop for health care providers to learn how to support patients in the timed-based appointment

So how can you support patients with pain to self-manage in a time-based consultation? This is question most health care providers ask us. It is possible, but you may need some extra skills.

Overview of the workshop:

• What is self care and self-management?
• Self-assessment
• Action planning, problem solving, dealing with set-backs and self-monitoring
• How to activate patients to self-manage and promote self-management to them in time-based consultations

The workshop is for all health and social care practitioners who work in Community, Primary, Secondary and Social Care to increase their awareness of the benefits of pain self- management.

For more information and regarding fees and the please complete the short form below and one of the Pain Toolkit Team will contact you to discuss in more detail.