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.

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.

Lindsay Steven who attends our Dumfries monthly meetings talks about the change from our face to face meetings to online via Zoom. He also talks about the benefits of attending the meetings on Zoom.

My name is Andrew Watson, I am 54, married to Simone with two girls Chloe and Maisie aged 10 and 8 and two dogs.

In September 2008, two weeks before my wedding, I had a serious accident in which I broke my pelvis in four places and damaged my hip.

I spent 41 days at Sunderland Royal infirmary having my pelvis put back together and a lot of physiotherapy. The Doctors said that there was a 50/50% chance that I would be able to walk properly again.

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.

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 them.

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.

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.