September is Pain Awareness Month

September is Pain Awareness Month from The Societal Impact of Pain. Pain Awareness Europe (PAE), in collaboration with other organisations in Europe, is holding an online event on 7 September, 14:00-15:00 CEST (15:00-16:00 British Summer Time). The webinar (in English) will focus on the topic of employment and pain and is open to all interested parties. Join the virtual event with via link.

There are also some infographics from PAE on ICD-11 and ICF available here.

ARMA free webinar – Services to support people to live well with pain

17 September 2021, 12.30 – 1.30pm

ARMA’s free webinar during Pain Awareness Month features James Watson, Physiotherapy Pain Lead, Integrated MSK and Community Pain Management, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust and Mohammad Shoiab, Pain Specialist Physiotherapist/Clinical Lead, Connect Health Pain Services.

The webinar will cover:

  • Delivering community pain services and living well support.
  • Building links between services with a common goal to enable patients living with pain to live a more valued life.
  • Embedding health coaching and other psychologically informed approaches ‘upstream’ in the individuals’ journey to reduce demand within pain services, improving access for those who need more specialist pain management support.
  • Dialogue and relationship building to drive integration including with IAPT, secondary psychology services, MSK triage and social prescribing.
  • Ensuring services will meet specific local population needs.
  • Useful resources

Sign up for this webinar here.