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Persistent Pain Program

The Persistent Pain Program - Turning pain into Gain (TPIG) is a community based multidisciplinary initiative that offers specialised Allied Health support in partnership with your regular GP providing access to assessment and treatment of persistent pain. The program does not seek to cure or eliminate pain but instead aims to help you improve your ability to live well despite the pain. The program does not provide pain specialists or surgical services. Persistent Pain is a considerable and ever growing public health issues. One in five Australians live with persistent pain including adolescents and children. This prevalence rises to one in three for people over the age of 65. Untreated, this can lead to significant disability. When pain lasts longer than three months, things need to change. Medicines are no longer as helpful as they once were, and in some situations can be quite harmful. We now know that effective management options are based on knowledge of how pain works in the body and on your personal situation. One in five GP consultations involves a patient with persistent/chronic pain and 10% report severe persistent pain. Early intervention and adoption of evidence-based treatments that provide access to effective pain assessment, prevention, self-management and non-pharmacological pain management can half the physical, emotional and economic cost burden of persistent pain in our community estimated to be around $34 Billion in Australia. For most people with persistent pain, it is best to have your GP helping you to manage your pain rather than going to see a specialist. This is because many of the things that help the most are things you can control yourself with good support from a health care team. There are two main parts of managing your pain through the persistent pain program: 1) Understanding pain and what you can do to make a difference. 2) Learning ways to improve your ability to do your daily tasks. You will also learn how to set goals and plan to meet them as well as how you can plan for the difficult days. The education program includes 6 modules (2hrs) education sessions that aim to help you learn a range of skills that can help you to make positive changes in your life. The modules discuss ways that our lifestyle impacts on pain and include 1) Knowing Pain and Pain Revolution 2) Medicines 3) Medical Investigations and Moving with Ease 4) Food and Pain 5) Pain and Sleep 6) Thoughts and Emotions
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