Download or read book Pain Toolkit Neuropathic Pain UK and Australia written by Pete Moore and published by Pain Toolkit . This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Pain Toolkit This Pain Toolkit ....is for people who live with Neuropathic persistent, long-term pain. Throughout the Pain Toolkit, you will see text in blue. These are hyperlinks to videos and other useful information. Pete Moore from the UK and co-author Mary Wing from Australia collaborated in this edition of the Pain Toolkit Here is a welcome video from Pete & Mary Pete says...A persistent pain problem can be difficult to understand and manage on an everyday basis. Like many people I struggled to manage my pain back in the early 1990’s. I was lucky to get myself on a pain management programme, which gave me the information, but more importantly, the confidence to manage my pain, myself. Since 1997, I haven't had the need to take any pain medication, simply because I still use the information from the programme. Is it easy? Well it’s like most things, you have to work at it. I’m not an academic guy, but all I can tell you, is that if I can do it, then I know others can. The Pain Toolkit is a simple information booklet that could provide you with some handy tips and skills to support you along the way to manage your pain. It is not meant to be the last word in pain self-management but a handy guide to help you get started. All you need to be is willing to read it and take on board some of the suggestions. Good luck! Pete Moore & Mary Wing
Download or read book Pain Toolkit Neuropathic Pain UK and Australia written by Pete Moore and published by Pain Toolkit . This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Pain Toolkit ....is for people who live with Neuropathic persistent, long-term pain and would like to learn some more simple self-management skills, to themselves get back in the driving seat. It is not meant to be the last word in pain self-management but a handy guide to help you get started. Pete Moore from the UK and co-author Mary Wing from Australia collaborated in this edition of the Pain Toolkit. Mary also lives with neuropathic pain and has learnt, how to self-manage it. All you need to be is willing to read it and take on board some of the suggestions. Good luck! Pete Moore & Mary Wing 12 Pain Toolkit Tools Tool 1: Acceptance and willingness Tool 2: Get involved - building a support team Tool 3: Pacing Tool 4: Learn to prioritise and plan out your days Tool 5: Setting Goals/Action Plans Tool 6: Being patient with yourself Tool 7: Learn relaxation skills Tool 8: Stretching & Exercise Tool 9 Keep a diary and track your progress Tool 10: Have a setback plan Tool 11: Team Work Tool 12: Keeping it up…and being resilient.
Download or read book Pain Toolkit Fibromyalgia written by Pete Moore and published by Pain Toolkit . This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook version of the Pain Toolkit for people living with fibromyalgia. The text you see in blue are hyperlinks to extra useful pain self-management information and also to the Pain Toolkit videos. Also, don’t forget to visit the website for other useful information. Pete Moore is the author and originator of the Pain Toolkit. He successfully lives with persistent pain, asthma, prostate cancer and osteoarthritis. He has put these tools together with the help of friends, family and healthcare professionals. Make self-managing your pain your first choice and not your last resort. So is persistent pain and fibromyalgia a problem a problem around the world? Yes, it’s become a problem worldwide. For instance here in the UK the short answer is yes, so you are not on your own. Here are some facts from the British Medical Journal Chronic (BMJ) Pain affects between one-third and one-half of the population of the UK, corresponding to just under 28 million adults, based on data from the best available published studies. This figure is likely to increase further in line with an ageing population. People with persistent pain were more likely to be anxious or depressed - 69% with severe pain are worried about their moods. Pete says…I receive daily emails from people who are worried, anxious and even get depressed. Is Fibromyalgia common? The NHS in the UK says… Some estimates suggest nearly 1 in 20 people may be affected by fibromyalgia to some degree. One of the main reasons it's not clear how many people are affected. 12 Pain Toolkit Tools Tool 1 - Accept that you have persistent pain ... and then begin to move on Tool 2 - Get involved, building a support team Tool 3 - Pacing daily activities Tool 4 - Learn to prioritise/plan out your days Tool 5 - Setting Goals/ Action Plans Tool 6 - Being patient with yourself Tool 7 - Learn relaxation skills Tool 8 - Meaningful movement (keeping active) Tool 9 - Keep a diary and track your progress Tool 10 - Have a setback plan Tool 11 - Teamwork Tool 12 - Keeping it up and being resilient. Important: On Pages 25 - 30 you will see links to others non for profit organisations in the UK, Ireland, America, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Your three step guide for using the Pain Toolkit Read it and show the Pain Toolkit to your circle of support: your partner, family, friends, work colleagues and your healthcare team. Choose and circle only two or three tools you think will make a positive change to self-managing your pain. Ask for help from your support circle if needed. Once you feel confident with those tools, then do the same steps and choose another two or three tools. Repeat again when needed.
Download or read book Pain Toolkit Neuropathic Pain written by Pete Moore and published by Pain Toolkit . This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the eBook Pain Toolkit This Pain Toolkit ....is for people who live with Neuropathic persistent, long-term pain. Throughout the Pain Toolkit, you will see text in blue. These are hyperlinks to videos and other useful information. Pete Moore from the UK and co-author Keith Meldrum from Canada, collaborated in this edition of the Pain Toolkit Pete says...A persistent pain problem can be difficult to understand and manage on an everyday basis. Like many people I struggled to manage my pain back in the early 1990’s. I was lucky to get myself on a pain management programme, which gave me the information, but more importantly, the confidence to manage my pain, myself. Since 1997, I haven't had the need to take any pain medication, simply because I still use the information from the programme. Is it easy? Well it’s like most things, you have to work at it. I’m not an academic guy, but all I can tell you, is that if I can do it, then I know others can. The Pain Toolkit is a simple information booklet that could provide you with some handy tips and skills to support you along the way to manage your pain. It is not meant to be the last word in pain self-management but a handy guide to help you get started. All you need to be is willing to read it and take on board some of the suggestions. Good luck! Pete Moore & Keith Meldrum
Download or read book Pain Toolkit Neuropathic UK Canada August 2020 written by Author and published by Pain Toolkit . This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Pain Toolkit ....is for people who live with Neuropathic persistent, long-term pain. Living with Neuropathic Pain by Keith Meldrum Persistent or long-term neuropathic pain presents challenges that are different from other forms of persistent pain (known as nociceptive and nociplastic pain). The most important distinction is that with neuropathic pain there is underlying damage to a person’s nervous system. Neuropathic pain is defined as “pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system”. The somatosensory nervous system is a network of neurons that help people recognize objects, discriminate textures, generate sensory-motor feedback, and exchange social cues. What this means from the perspective of day to day life is that neuropathic pain is always present. It may modulate in intensity throughout the day, but the pain remains. Neuropathic pain is often best described as burning, shooting, stabbing, tingling, numbness, pins and needles, and hot and cold. Some common effects of neuropathic pain include allodynia and/or hyperalgesia. Allodynia is pain that is evoked by a stimulus that is usually not painful, such as a feather or clothing against someone’s skin. Hyperalgesia is an increased response to pain that already exists. These feelings are constant, daily, inescapable, and underscore the reason why it is important to understand the complexity of persistent neuropathic pain and how to best consider, implement, and modify effective pain self-management techniques. The principles of self-management are important but need to be considered in the context of neuropathic pain.
Download or read book Self Management Toolkit WORLDWIDE written by Pete Moore and published by Pain Toolkit . This book was released on 2023-11-18 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Self-Management Toolkit is for people who are living with long-term health conditions and want to learn some extra simple skills, so they feel more in control and get back in the driving seat. 12 Self-Management Tools Tool 1 - Accept that you have a long-term health condition ... and then begin to move on Tool 2 - Get involved, building a support team Tool 3 - Pacing daily activities Tool 4 - Learn to prioritise/plan out your days Tool 5 - Setting Goals/ Action Plans Tool 6 - Being patient with yourself Tool 7 - Learn relaxation skills Tool 8 - Keeping Active...Stretching & Exercising Tool 9 - Keep a diary and tracking your progress Tool 10 - Have a setback plan Tool 11 - Teamwork Tool 12 - Keeping it up and being resilient. The Self-Management has been adapted from the Pain Toolkit which I authored in 2001. When you click on each of the tools from 1-12, the videos are from the Pain Toolkit, simply because most people long-term health conditions, will be experiencing some type of long-term pain.
Download or read book Pain Toolkit Worldwide Version Revised August 2020 written by Author and published by Pain Toolkit . This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pain Toolkit Pete Moore is the author and originator of the Pain Toolkit. He successfully lives with persistent pain, asthma, prostate cancer and osteoarthritis. He has put these tools together with the help of friends, family and healthcare professionals. Make self-managing your pain your first choice and not your last resort. 12 Pain Toolkit Tools Tool 1 - Accept that you have persistent pain ... and then begin to move on Tool 2 - Get involved, building a support team Tool 3 - Pacing daily activities Tool 4 - Learn to prioritise/plan out your days Tool 5 - Setting Goals/ Action Plans Tool 6 - Being patient with yourself Tool 7 - Learn relaxation skills Tool 8 - Keeping Active...Stretching & Exercising Tool 9 - Keep a diary and track your progress Tool 10 - Have a setback plan Tool 11 - Teamwork Tool 12 - Keeping it up and being resilient.
Download or read book Self Management Toolkit Carers Edition written by Pete Moore and published by Pain Toolkit . This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Self-Management Toolkit is for people who are Carers and also living with long-term health conditions. Who want to learn some extra simple skills, so they feel more in control and get back in the driving seat.
Download or read book My Pain Toolkit written by Pete Moore and published by Pain Toolkit . This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Pain Toolkit is for young people and teenagers living with persistent pain Does pain stop you from doing the things you enjoy? Do you struggle to understand your pain? Do you want your pain to stop controlling you? If any of these questions are true then this toolkit is for you! My Pain Toolkit is a simple guide that gives you some handy tips and skills to help you to understand and manage pain better! “I loved My Pain Toolkit, as it wasn't talking at me, but just giving me some tips and ideas that others have used to manage their pain.” F.N. Essex
Download or read book Mechanisms of Vascular Disease written by Robert Fitridge and published by University of Adelaide Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New updated edition first published with Cambridge University Press. This new edition includes 29 chapters on topics as diverse as pathophysiology of atherosclerosis, vascular haemodynamics, haemostasis, thrombophilia and post-amputation pain syndromes.
Download or read book Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.
Download or read book Magnesium in the Central Nervous System written by Robert Vink and published by University of Adelaide Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brain is the most complex organ in our body. Indeed, it is perhaps the most complex structure we have ever encountered in nature. Both structurally and functionally, there are many peculiarities that differentiate the brain from all other organs. The brain is our connection to the world around us and by governing nervous system and higher function, any disturbance induces severe neurological and psychiatric disorders that can have a devastating effect on quality of life. Our understanding of the physiology and biochemistry of the brain has improved dramatically in the last two decades. In particular, the critical role of cations, including magnesium, has become evident, even if incompletely understood at a mechanistic level. The exact role and regulation of magnesium, in particular, remains elusive, largely because intracellular levels are so difficult to routinely quantify. Nonetheless, the importance of magnesium to normal central nervous system activity is self-evident given the complicated homeostatic mechanisms that maintain the concentration of this cation within strict limits essential for normal physiology and metabolism. There is also considerable accumulating evidence to suggest alterations to some brain functions in both normal and pathological conditions may be linked to alterations in local magnesium concentration. This book, containing chapters written by some of the foremost experts in the field of magnesium research, brings together the latest in experimental and clinical magnesium research as it relates to the central nervous system. It offers a complete and updated view of magnesiums involvement in central nervous system function and in so doing, brings together two main pillars of contemporary neuroscience research, namely providing an explanation for the molecular mechanisms involved in brain function, and emphasizing the connections between the molecular changes and behavior. It is the untiring efforts of those magnesium researchers who have dedicated their lives to unraveling the mysteries of magnesiums role in biological systems that has inspired the collation of this volume of work.
Download or read book Davidson s Principles and Practice of Medicine E Book written by Stuart H. Ralston and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 1440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two million medical students, doctors and other health professionals around the globe have owned a copy of Davidson’s Principles and Practice of Medicine since it was first published. Now in its 23rd Edition, this textbook describes the pathophysiology and clinical features of the most frequently encountered conditions in the major specialties of adult medicine and explains how to recognise, investigate, diagnose and manage them. Taking its origins from Sir Stanley Davidson’s much-admired lecture notes, Davidson’s has endured because it keeps pace with how modern medicine is taught and provides a wealth of information in an easy-to-read, concise and beautifully illustrated format. This book will serve readers everywhere as a core text that integrates medical science with clinical medicine, conveying key knowledge and practical advice in a highly accessible and readable format. The opening section describes the fundamentals of genetics, immunology, infectious diseases and population health, and discusses the core principles of clinical decision-making and good prescribing. A new second section on emergency and critical care medicine encompasses poisoning, envenomation and environmental medicine, and introduces a new chapter on acute medicine and critical illness. The third section covers the major medical specialties, each thoroughly revised and brought fully up to date. Two new chapters on maternal and adolescent/transition medicine complement the one on ageing and disease. A new chapter on medical ophthalmology has been included. Clinical Examination overviews summarise the main elements for each system and now feature in the biochemistry, nutrition and dermatology chapters. Presenting Problems sections provide a clear pathway for the assessment of and approach to the most common complaints in each specialty. Practice Point summaries detail the practical skills that medical students and junior doctors must acquire. Emergency boxes emphasise the core knowledge needed to manage acutely ill patients. In Old Age, In Pregnancy and In Adolescence boxes highlight differences in the practice of medicine in these patient groups, and illustrate the interfaces between medical, obstetric and paediatric services. The text is extensively illustrated, with over 1000 diagrams, clinical photographs, and radiology and pathology images. The global perspective is enhanced by an International Advisory Board of experts from 17 countries, and by authors from around the world.
Download or read book Bonica s Management of Pain written by Jane C. Ballantyne and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 1896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher's Note: Products purchased from 3rd Party sellers are not guaranteed by the Publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. This exhaustively comprehensive edition of the classic Bonica’s Management of Pain, first published 65 years ago, expertly combines the scientific underpinnings of pain with clinical management. Completely revised, it discusses a wide variety of pain conditions—including neuropathic pain, pain due to cancer, and acute pain situations—for adults as well as children. An international group of the foremost experts provides comprehensive, current, clinically oriented coverage of the entire field. The contributors describe contemporary clinical practice and summarize the evidence that guides clinical practice.
Download or read book Compounded Topical Pain Creams written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pain is both a symptom and a disease. It manifests in multiple forms and its treatment is complex. Physical, social, economic, and emotional consequences of pain can impair an individual's overall health, well-being, productivity, and relationships in myriad ways. The impact of pain at a population level is vast and, while estimates differ, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 50 million U.S. adults are living in pain. In terms of pain's global impact, estimates suggest the problem affects approximately 1 in 5 adults across the world, with nearly 1 in 10 adults newly diagnosed with chronic pain each year. In recent years, the issues surrounding the complexity of pain management have contributed to increased demand for alternative strategies for treating pain. One such strategy is to expand use of topical pain medicationsâ€"medications applied to intact skin. This nonoral route of administration for pain medication has the potential benefit, in theory, of local activity and fewer systemic side effects. Compounding is an age-old pharmaceutical practice of combining, mixing, or adjusting ingredients to create a tailored medication to meet the needs of a patient. The aim of compounding, historically, has been to provide patients with access to therapeutic alternatives that are safe and effective, especially for people with clinical needs that cannot otherwise be met by commercially available FDA-approved drugs. Compounded Topical Pain Creams explores issues regarding the safety and effectiveness of the ingredients in these pain creams. This report analyzes the available scientific data relating to the ingredients used in compounded topical pain creams and offers recommendations regarding the treatment of patients.
Download or read book WHO Guidelines for the Pharmacological and Radiotherapeutic Management of Cancer Pain in Adults and Adolescents written by World Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Developing Practical Nursing Skills written by Nicola Neale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 871 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing Practical Nursing Skills helps you learn and perfect the practical skills required to become a qualified nurse. Adopting a patient-focused and caring approach, this essential text helps you integrate nursing values alongside physical skills in your daily practice. Now in its fifth edition, the text takes into account the NMC standards of proficiency and is relevant to nurses across all fields. Key features of the book include: i) New chapters on mental health assessment and end-of-life care, along with expanded content on sleep, pain and medication management. ii) Full-colour text design with clear illustrations and clinical photographs to aid visual learning. iii) Reader-friendly style with learning outcomes, activities and reflection points to help you link theory to practice. iv) Scenarios from a range of settings, including community, mental health and learning disabilities nursing. v) A focus on adults and young people, and with 'pointers' on caring for children and pregnant women to promote a lifespan approach. This is a complete clinical skills resource for all pre-registration nursing students. It is also a useful text for nursing associate and healthcare support workers.
