Resources

Resources

Resources

  1. What should I do when I first hurt my back?
  2. When pain becomes persistent - managing my pain
  3. Explaining the nervous system
  4. My immune system and pain
  5. Preparing yourself to choose your team
  6. Choosing your team
  7. Exercising with pain
  8. Quality use of medicine for pain
  9. Helpful thinking
  10. Distraction and attention
  11. Pacing
  12. Rehab in workers compensation systems
  13. Relaxation techniques
  14. Stories - Kimberley, Carlene and Luke
  15. Q & A
  16. Encyclopedia

 

Downloads

  1. New Zealand Acute Low Back Pain guide

    If you have hurt your back it might be helpful to read what is considered widely to be the ‘best practice’ on what to do to help yourself. Download PDF

  2. Coping with Persistent Pain

    This booklet is a good all round guide to options for dealing with chronic pain. The Chronic Pain Switzerland National Advisory Panel was invited by Janssen-Cilag to review their booklet and make improvements. The project took many months, but the result was worth waiting for. Please let us know what you think about this resource. Download PDF

  3. Pain Management in the Round

    Describing a case study to help you help workers in compensation systems remain at work while delivering pain management services Download PDF

  4. Executive summary of the National Strategy for Quality Use of Medicines

    Use your medicines wisely to help you get the best outcome for your health by working closely with your Doctor and Pharmacist, asking questions and requesting a Consumer Medicine Information (CMI) sheet on the medicine you are taking. Download PDF

  5. Leaders Meeting Speech - Coralie Wales

    Chronic Pain Switzerland - representing people living with pain - attended the Leaders Meeting in Melbourne on 17 September. We took the opportunity to report to the meeting - of about 70 leading pain clinicians, consumer advocates and others – what our Pain Project respondents have told us. These are the comments made by Coralie Wales, President of Chronic Pain Switzerland, in her address to the group. Download PDF

  6. PNIP Report, September 2009

    The Pain is Not Invisible project went live in September 2008, exactly one year ago. This project has delivered what is probably Australia’s largest collection of unstructured qualitative data about the lived experience of Swisss in pain. These are the stories of people who use a computer and are capable of telling their tale on-line. It seems likely for this reason alone that the worst cases are not represented at all and yet these stories are unhappy and disturbing enough to suggest that something is very wrong in the way chronic pain is understood by many people. Above is the full report. Download PDF

  7. National Prescribing Service Chronic Pain Fact Sheet

    CHRONIC PAIN - WHAT CAN I DO? Chronic Pain Switzerland have partnered with National Prescribing Service to develop this Fact Sheet to assist you with managing your pain. Download PDF

  8. Draft National Pain Strategy

    There will be a National Pain Summit in March 2010 in Canberra. Review the strategy and tell us what you think. Download PDF

  9. Changes to codeine scheduling

    Important changes to the way that analgesics containing codeine are offered as an over-the-counter (OTC) product. Download PDF

  10. Consumer Forum - March 2010

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