Pain Management
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Pain Australia
Painaustralia is a national not-for-profit body established to improve the treatment and management of pain in Australia.
Pain and aches | healthdirect
Information about chronic pain, back pain, headaches, hip pain, nerve pain, chest pain and more, plus pain relief medicine facts, from Healthdirect Australia, the national health information and advice service funded by the Australian Government.
NPS MedicineWise
Information about prescription, over-the-counter and complementary (herbal, ‘natural’, vitamin and mineral) medicines. Visit the website or call 1300 MEDICINE. (Opens in a new window)
NOI Group resources
"Explain Pain" book, and information on mirror box therapy and graded motor imagery techniques for pain management. From the Neuro Orthopaedic Institute. (Opens in a new window)
Headaches and Acquired or Traumatic Brain Injury
A fact sheet from Synapse about the relationship between headache and brain injury and what to do to manage the impact
Find a pain service
This directory from Painaustralia includes practices with training in pain medicine, as well as services that require a referral, such as multidisciplinary pain clinics and pain management services.
Chronic pain explained
Information from NPS MedicineWise about managing chronic pain, opiod and non-opiod medicines, and how to talk to your health professional. (Opens in a new window)
Chronic Pain Australia
A group of volunteers including people in pain, researchers, health professionals and advocate who work towards de-stigmatising, understanding and controlling chronic pain. (Opens in a new window)
Australian Pain Management Association
APMA provides a helpline service, pain support groups, resources and training