Persistent Pain Programme

Persistent Pain Programme is a free self-management course for people who live with day-to-day persistent pain.

What is the EPP Persistent Pain Programme?

Persistent Pain Programme is a free self-management course for people who live with day-to-day persistent pain. The course looks at:

• Meeting and sharing experiences with others in a similar situation
• Overcoming common misconceptions, fears and belief about pain
• Pacing daily activities
• Stretching and exercising techniques – where to begin
• Action planning and goal setting
• Problem solving
• Keeping a pain diary and tracking your progress
• Medication management
• Healthy eating
• Relaxation
• How to improve communication skills
• Dealing with set backs

Who can take part?

Any adult with any type of persistent pain can attend. This could include muscular pain, nerve pain, joint pain and other medical conditions which cause pain.

Practicalities

Persistent Pain is delivered by trained and accredited tutors, living with persistent pain themselves, who have become good pain self-managers.

How can it help you?

By taking part in a Persistent Pain course, you will:

• Improve quality of life
• Reduce pain and tiredness
• Be able to do more without increasing the pain
• Learn that becoming and keeping active doesn’t equal harm
• Reduce feelings of isolation and depression
• Increase confidence and self esteem
• Improve relationships with family, friends and work colleagues
• Reduce visits to health care professionals and time off work