Pain Self-managment

Pain Tools

Twelve practical and easy to use tools from the Pain Toolkit author, Pete Moore.

The Pain Toolkit simple tools are a set of practical strategies designed to help people manage their persistent pain more effectively. These tools include simple skills for pacing and planning activities, relaxation to get back on track and in the driving seat.

Pain Toolkit Academy

Online courses for people living with persistent pain and healthcare professionals, who support them. Both super affordable.

We’re delighted with the feedback we’ve received from both clinicians and patients who have engaged with our courses. Here are five short quotes reflecting the general experience of patients who have completed the Pain Toolkit course:

  1. ‘The Pain Toolkit Academy gave me the simple tools I needed to take charge of my life again.’
  2. ‘This course transformed my understanding of persistent pain; I now feel empowered instead of defeated.’
  3. ‘I now have practical strategies that help me manage my persistent pain day by day.’
  4. ‘Participating in the Pain Toolkit course was a game changer for my wellbeing and confidence.’
  5. ‘I never realised I could actively participate in managing my persistent pain until I took this course.’

5 key pain self management skills:

  • Goal setting / Action planning
  • Pacing daily activities
  • Problem solving
  • Meaningful movement (keeping active, stretching/exercise?
  • Knowing what to do if something goes wrong (have a setback plan)
Acceptance

Accept that you have persistent pain and then begin to move on. Acceptance is the first and the most important tool in your pain self management toolkit.

Get involved

Get involved, start building a support team. Being successful in pain self management means getting both help and support from others.

Pacing

Learn to pace yourself. Pacing daily activities is one of the key tools to self managing your pain.

Prioritising

Learn to prioritise and plan out your days. Prioritising and planning your days is an essential tool.

Setting Goals

Setting goals and action plans. For example, Tuesday PM - you could write an activity plan for the following day.

Be Patient

Be patient with yourself. Take things steadily. It may take you a few weeks or months to see changes or improvements.

Relaxation

Learn relaxation skills. Relaxation skills are very important for tense muscles in the body and for unwinding the mind.

Meaningful Movement

Keeping fit and healthy. Many people with pain fear exercise in case it causes more problems. However this is not true.

Track Progress

It is always handy to note what hasn't or didn’t work so you can learn from those experiences. We sometimes learn more from our errors and not from our successes.

Setback Plans

Do you have a setback plan? Is it unrealistic to not have a setback plan? The simple answer is NO! Developing a setback plan is good pain self management.

Team work

Team Work and action planning. Team work between you and your healthcare professional is vital. Imagine the Arsenal football team playing without a team plan.

Daily Practice & Resilience

Daily Practice & resilience. Keeping it up and putting in to daily practise the tools from 1-11.