Pain management resources
General Information
Explain Pain – an under five minute video summarizing the most current information about what pain is, how to think about it, and how to manage it
Recovery Strategies Pain Guidebook – user friendly and easy to understand, this book is a free downloadable PDF
The Pain Toolkit – a rabbit hole of online resources to understand and manage chronic pain. There is information on a variety of approaches and perspectives
Self Directed Management
Pain University – self directed program of modules designed to help you understand and manage your pain
Choose Health – Chronic Pain Program – virtual six week program to help people living with chronic pain learn skills that can help them better manage their chronic pain symptoms as well as their daily lives
Progress Over Pain – six week online program that focuses on self-management for people living with chronic pain
Take Control Take Charge – six week workshop to learn and practice the tools that can help you live a better quality of life, while dealing with chronic pain
Physician Directed Management
Toronto Academic Medicine Pain Institute – an interdisciplinary approach with your family doctor or nurse practitioner suggesting and directing strategies forward
Provincial Chronic Pain Clinics – a variety of regional pain clinics requiring referral and direction by your family doctor or nurse practitioner