Chronic Pain is difficult to live with. It is hard to understand, you can’t see it and it varies day to day, sometimes for no apparent reason. In addition to pain, people often experience frustration, anxiety, stress, sleeplessness, low mood, isolation, communication and relationship problems. This brings many challenges.

A video that Phil Sizer our lead trainer made to show what it is like to attend one of our self-management courses.

Pain Association Scotland are working in collaboration with Abertay University to look at new technologies to support people living with chronic pain.

Chronic Pain is difficult to live with. It is hard to understand, you can’t see it and it varies day to day, sometimes for no apparent reason. In addition to pain, people often experience frustration, anxiety, stress, sleeplessness, low mood, isolation, communication and relationship problems. This brings challenges for the person with the condition and the people who care for and about them.

Maggie attends one of our monthly pain management groups after completing our 5 week  intensive course .  Listen to her story and hear the specific things she learnt that particularly  mattered and helped her. Listen too, to Maggie’s recommendations to other people also living with chronic pain,  the changes she has made and her hopes for the future.

We recently updated our old ten steps leaflet that we felt needed updating.

There are more than 10 ideas in this document and it is likely that you can think of some more that we have missed! But we felt that it would be a good idea to share it.

Here’s what we have delivered during the pandemic so far in order to ensure that people with chronic pain and their families and carers are supported during this difficult time.

In the second part of our video series on Self Management, John Deans talks about how Self Management works for him.