APMA - Australian Pain Management Assoc.

Neuropathic Pain Information

APMA has partnered with NPS MedicineWise to produce these best practice information sheets for people suffering nerve pain and their GPs treating neuropathic pain.

Nerve pain (also called neuropathic pain) is caused by damage or injury to nerves from conditions like shingles, diabetes, stroke and HIV. Nerve pain is different from other types of pain and simple pain medicines have little effect.

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Sleep and Back Pain Study

Do you have or know someone with back pain and trouble sleeping?

Join a six week online program to improve sleep quality and reduce back pain!

This study is open to twin and non-twin participants. Please see the corresponding Participant Information Form by clicking Read more.

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The Cognitive Impacts of Opioid Therapy Study

The University of Tasmania is conducting an online survey of people who use prescription opioids to manage chronic pain, and the effects that such medications may have on other parts of life.

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Congratulations 2018 Queensland Young Australian of the Year - Phil Thompson

APMA is very pleased to congratulate one of our newest Committee of Management members Phil Thompson on his recent award - 2018 Queensland Young Australian of the Year.

Phil is a 29 year old veterans’ champion from Townsville, Australia's "garrison city". After enlisting in the Australian Army in 2006 at the age of 17, Phillip Thompson was deployed to East Timor and later Afghanistan. While on a dismounted patrol in 2009, Phil was wounded when an improvised explosive device detonated just a metre away. The incident left Phil with an array of medical conditions – including hearing loss and tinnitus, post-traumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder and a traumatic brain injury – all of which have changed Phil’s life dramatically.

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