Persistent pain can interrupt and interfere with daily activities, and impacts on how a person feels about their sense of self and the future.

As persistent pain affects all parts of life, physical, emotional and social factors need to be considered in helping people live with long term pain. These include:-Pain Management involves recognising the interactions of all these areas of life, and finding different ways to improve everyday functioning – even if the pain itself cannot be fixed. Pain management aims to explain and reduce these effects by giving people information and helping them develop coping skills that improve their ability to manage pain. The starting point is understanding your individual pain experience.

Pain Management Programmes have developed to help people who live with persistent pain.  Persistent/Chronic Pain is pain that lasts longer than three months.  It is a complex condition and for many people medical interventions have not provided the relief they hoped for.

Persistent pain is a complex condition that needs to be accepted in order to progress to understanding how to manage the experience and progress with self-management. For example, exploring the Mind-Body interaction and strategies that help manage pain more effectively.

Such strategies include planning/pacing activities, relaxation techniques to reduce muscle tension and movement retraining.

ACTivate Your Life - Public Health Wales

This free course is designed to help you improve your mental health and wellbeing. Feeling worried or anxious can have a big impact on your health and for some people life can be particularly difficult.

The Pain Toolkit

The Pain Toolkit is for people with persistent pain.

Flippin' Pain

Campaign focused on raising awareness of the problem of persistent pain, spreading the word about a modern scientific understanding of pain and giving people knowledge, skills and hope for a better way forward.

Painrevolution

Grassroots movement charged with changing how people understand pain.

Know Pain

Useful booklet titled "Understanding Persistent Pain".

Pain Concern

Provides information on pain useing a variety of media platforms and Provide support to people with pain and those who care for them.

www.nhs.uk/10-ways-to-ease-pain

www.livewellwithpain.co.uk/

www.versusarthritis.org/

Provided resources to help understand how chronic pain affects people living with arthritis diagnoses, how to live well with your condition and further support.