Re-think.
Re-engage.
Recover!
Revolutionising pain care and education through understanding, empowerment and long-term capacity building.
Revolutionising pain care and education through understanding, empowerment and long-term capacity building.
Pain Revolution is running a new challenge this year #GoTheDistance! The challenge will be a walk, run or cycle event, using the power of technology to track every person’s progress! We can't wait to see our community get out there and achieve their goals while at the same time raising money to support people in pain in rural and regional Australia.
See how to get involved here https://painrevolution.raisely.com/
Early bird prizes for the first 50 people to raise $200 – you could win an exclusive, limited edition Pain Revolution Go the Distance T shirt.
Don't forget to tag us and our sponsors @AIA Vitality Australia and #IPAR in your social posts so that we can celebrate your progress! #GoTheDistance2021 #GTD21
Pain Revolution is a grassroots movement charged with changing how people understand pain. Our initiatives are centred around providing the latest information in pain science and care, so people can make better informed decisions.
Pain Revolution is a people powered movement, striving to change how we care for people in pain.
We believe that this will be most successful if we do it together! Pain Revolution is a vision driven collaboration of researchers, clinicians, people with lived experience and peak bodies.
We aim to inspire and enable each other and communities to make sustainable, positive change. As a collective, we strive for excellence and promote transparency, honesty and accountability in everything we do.
Pain Revolution respects diversity of stories and all the parties who comprise the pain care system.
Give someone a fish and they will eat well tonight. Teach them to fish and they will eat well forever. Let’s empower people with knowledge that can transform their pain care journey.
Learning about pain is not easy, but it can be fun. It is usually surprising. There is much to learn, but the most important concepts are covered here.
Warning: You will need some curiosity and an open mind, courage, patience and persistence. A good coach can also be precious. Be hopeful because we can ALL learn something new about pain.
Health care guidelines all around the world agree that good pain education is key. Pain Revolution recognises this fact and puts modern education strategies at the heart of all we do. These Target Concepts are ‘a work in progress’, which means that scientists are busy working together with education experts, pain experts, and people with lived experience to communicate this important information in the most useful way.
If your situation is making you feel helpless or hopeless, it might be time to take a new approach to overcoming your pain.
All pain is real, no matter what’s causing it. What surprises most people is that you can have pain when there is no tissue damage. That is, when there’s no damage to muscles, tendons, nerves or any of the linings within the body.
The relationship between pain and tissue damage can be very surprising. This is because pain isn’t there to give you a running commentary on the state of your body tissues. It’s there to protect them from anything dangerous. Pain gets your attention and urges you to act to avoid that danger.
Our brains have survival as their number one priority. We are evolutionarily ‘primed’ to be aware of danger and pain is one response to protect us from it.
The purpose of pain is protection. However, sometimes it becomes over-zealous. This is because – like all biological systems in the body – the pain system learns. So when you’ve lived with pain for a long time, your system will have become more effective and more protective of that body area.
Just as the pain system learned to be overprotective, it can be retrained to work normally thanks to bioplasticity.
There’s overwhelming evidence that the best treatments to prevent and overcome persistent pain involve planning ahead, taking control and having a long-term approach.
Our comrades are working hard to meet our vision and a lot has happened since the revolution began in 2017. Here is a little tally from our activities:
EDUCATORS
Rural/regional clinicians trained, mentored and supported by Pain Revolution.
KILOMETRES
Of Australian countryside crossed in all our four annual Rural Outreach Tours
PARTICIPANTS
People who have attended one or more of our free pain education outreach sessions across the country.
DONATIONS
Has been raised this year to provide free pain education in rural/regional communities
We want to share what is happening in our space, what our amazing comrades are up to and the latest information in pain education and care.
Can you help us to better understand persistent pain? Researchers from the University of South Australia are looking for individuals with or without persistent pain to participate in an online study investigating cognitive performance and pain.
Read our latest issue of Rev'd Up, the official Pain Revolution newsletter! We have a great line up this issue.
Here we are in November, heading into a new normal with state borders reopening and travelling back on our agendas. It sure will be good to reconnect with loved ones and, we hope, put the Rural Outreach Tour back on the agenda!
396 individuals and 36 teams took up the challenge. Over 31 days you walked, ran, and rode more than 80,000km to support our cause. Together you have raised over $78,000! Thank you, we couldn't have done it without you!
In the struggle not the prize, that is where the victory lies!
"Competition is Where You Find It – We Are All Driven by Individual Motives."
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