HELP FOR CARERS

  1. Coping strategies for carers
  2. Support contacts for carers
  3. The challenge of chronic pain
  4. Caring for someone in pain
  5. Volunteers
  6. Postcard Tree & Home Paddock
  7. Children and Pain

Communicating Persistent Pain

Living with persistent pain is hard enough but another daily battle is often communicating what the pain is like and how it has developed to family and friends. The Wellcome Trust has produced a video about a persistent pain syndrome, erythromelalgia. The difficulty finding language for erythromelalgia has similarities with other persistent pain conditions, and hopefully, can assist you to communicate what your individual pain experience is like to friends and family.

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 "Just as governments have made inroads in destigmatising depression, they must now tackle the stigma associated with another disease afflicting Australia, chronic pain."
– Professor Michael Cousins, AM, a world authority on pain and its management.
http://www.painaustralia.org.au/