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. Starting January 2022 and open Scotland wide we will have sessions throughout the year.

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.

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.

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.

New intensive self-management course for those living in Ayrshire & Arran for helping you manage your 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.

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.

These courses provide a special opportunity for carers and partners to build skills and gain insights in the self-management approach to health. The aim is to help carers and partners to share self-management ideas with the person they care about. Importantly it is also an opportunity for them to feel more supported and less alone in their responsibilities.

The Scottish Government has produced a face covering exemption card, to support those who are unable to wear one to feel more confident and safe when accessing public spaces and using public services.

First part of a series of service users and clinicians talking about Self-Management for pain suffers.

In response to the Covid lockdown we quickly moved

to running everything online. The Government are

interested in stories like ours, so we interviewed Lindsay

from the Dumfries group about how they had all got on with the new set-up. He answers in a refreshing honest and insightful way.

I have said throughout the COVID pandemic how I extremely proud I am of the team. Each one of them has gone above and beyond to deliver an increased a key service, a lifeline for all those suffering with chronic pain.

We are excited to announce that Pain Association Scotland has been awarded a grant from The National Lottery Community Fund.

The funding aims to support communities to improve the places which they live and the well being of those most in need. .