PAIN LINK HELPLINE 1300 340 357

“Waking up every morning in pain can be overwhelming... thanks for helping”

APMA’s Pain Link telephone helpline 1300 340 357 can be contacted for the cost of a local call. Staffed by volunteers who live with persistent (chronic) pain themselves, support is only a call away. Don’t suffer alone.

A Pain link brochure is available.

APMA’s website aims to offer pain management options and information for people with pain, their families and friends. Health care professionals will also find the site interesting and informative. APMA advocates for recognition of persistent (chronic) pain as a disease in its own right and for better health and community services for people with ongoing pain, and believes pain management is a human healthcare right.
APMA provides a wide range of additional specialised community support services, including:

• Pain support groups
• Increased community awareness of persistent pain via outreach to shopping centres, community organisations and the community sector generally
• Self management presentations to Seniors organizations – clients, carers, staff
• Evidence based persistent pain information and pain management options
• Quarterly Wellbeing newsletters
• Advice and assistance with workers’ compensation, veteran compensation and Centrelink claims and issues
• Lobbying of governments, health services and companies on behalf of people with persistent pain
• Advocacy to improve health and community services for those with persistent pain in line with the National Pain Strategy

We can’t take the pain away
but we can help improve quality of life.

BECOME A PART OF APMA

Join APMA today and help enhance the wellbeing of all Australians living with persistent pain. You can join on-line, or download and complete a membership form. The form can be emailed to secretary.apma@bigpond.com or mailed to GPO Box 2104, Brisbane QLD 4001.
You can also assist APMA by making a tax-deductible donation – donations of $2 or more are tax deductible. On receipt of your donation (which can also be made on-line), APMA will send you a receipt.  Your donation can make a big difference for someone you know with disabling pain, supporting APMA’s community awareness and education pain programs which help reduce suffering. Pain is everyone’s business.

MORE INFORMATION About APMA

Sign the Montreal Declaration Now

The Montreal Declaration calls for access to pain management to be a human right for all people with pain. Professor Michael Cousins AM chaired the International Pain Summit. The Montreal Declaration was announced in 2010 at the International Pain summit. Read the full text and sign the Declaration of Montreal.

Professor Cousins has campaigned strenuously on the rights of people with pain to access effective pain management.  He recently addressed a conference of International Human Rights Organisations in the Netherlands. You can also hear him interviewed on Canadian radio here, on a similar subject, but also criticising the way pain management is taught or more properly not taught in medical schools and how that could be changed. The program also includes an extended interview with a man who has suffered from persistent pain for most of his adult life.

Supporters and sponsors

APMA appreciates the generous support of a wide range of organisations, companies and individuals, without whose support our work would not be possible. This support takes many forms – encouragement, advice, publicity, and, of course, financial (and in-kind) support. You know who you are – and the restful sleep of the virtuous will hopefully be just one of your rewards.
We wish to particularly express our sincere appreciation for the financial support/sponsorship from all of these organisations.