About The Program
Supported by the Sydney North Health Network through the Australian Government’s PHN program. This program will provide community based chronic pain education, counselling and exercise therapy.
The goals of the program are to:
Improve functional capacity through education and exercise.
Assist individuals to identify goals, barriers, and boundaries, and to develop crisis management strategies and self-help routines.
Community Chronic Pain program
The program is based off principals of shared medical appointments, which are a series of individual office visits sequentially attending to each patient’s unique needs individually, but in a supportive group setting where all can listen, interact and learn.
Small group size
Maximum 10 partipants per program
Face-to-face education
1.5 hour face-to-face education and exercise session once a week that will run over 5 consecutive weeks
Qualified allied health practitioners
Qualified and experienced allied health practitioners will facilitate the program
Provided with materials
Provided with a workbook which includes goal charts, exercise charts, suitable exercises for the self-management of chronic pain. In addition to relaxation techniques and assistance with setting up self-help routines at home
Suitable patients
Patients identified by their GP as having chronic pain
Pain longer than 3 months or beyond the normal healing time of an injury resulting in declining functional and psychological well-being (e.g. musculoskeletal pain, whiplash, neuropathic pain, fibromyalgia)
Independently mobile
Ability and willingness to attend all sessions
Ineligle patients
Patients undergoing active treatment for cancer, infection or fractures
Patients on high dose opioids (> 60mgs oral morphine equivalent per day)
Worker’s compensation or third-party insurance claims.
Contact the clinic
Contact the clinic today for more information about the program and important dates.
Phone
(02) 8668 4839
Address
Level 1 / 171 Victoria Avenue, Chatswood 2067 NSW