Your experience of pain is real.
Pain can affect all areas of your life.
Pain can lead to suffering and negatively affect your outlook on life.
Pain has a purpose. It is intended to protect your body and improve your chances of survival. But sometimes, with chronic pain, your body becomes overprotective to the point that simple activities are too painful to tolerate.
Medications can help with chronic pain but not everyone benefits from pain medication and there are risks involved. Fortunately there are other options that can provide relief. If you are considering reducing or maintaining your use of pain medications, the information and support here will help you reduce your suffering and help you find renewed purpose and re-engage with the things that matter in your life.
Your pain recovery journey starts here…
Let’s start by learning more about your pain and how it is affecting you.
True discovery happens when you embrace the obstacle, the difficulty. Truth is for the patient, the enduring.
Maxime Lagacé
Pain Assessment
If you communicate well about your pain, you will get better care from your healthcare providers. It is common to become emotional when talking about pain. The pain assessment worksheet guides you through the questions that your healthcare provider should be asking you.
Self Management
Incorporate pain self-management strategies to reduce the intensity and frequency of pain you experience.
Goals & Action Plans
When most people think about what really matters to them and then look at what’s holding them back, they learn a lot about what needs to be done.
About Pain
Learn more about the purpose of pain and how the brain changes when pain persists over time.
Get access to some recommended sites to learn about pain science in an entertaining way.
Find an OT
OTs address the issues that get in the way of being able to do the things that are important, including the activities that allow you to independently take care of yourself and your family, and those activities that give you satisfaction and a sense of purpose in life.
Pain Tool Kit
If you communicate well about your pain, you will get better care from your healthcare providers. It is common to become emotional when talking about pain. The pain assessment worksheet guides you through the questions that your healthcare provider should be asking you.
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