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One in three Western households has one or more members with a chronic pain condition which usually has been present for more than three years and is described by 40% as being distressing, severe or unbearable

This website describes interventions that were found to e useful in this setting and details the results of medical practitioner education in the fields discussed.

The majority of the Acupuncture articles were written by Dr Simon Strauss who was sponsored by the W.H.O to attend the first course on Acupuncture for Western medical practitioners held in China (1978). Dr Strauss has now retired from medical practice having established Australia's first private multi-disciplinary pain clinic. Most of the clinical material published herein was gathered and collated from studies carried out on the 10,000 patients who attended for the management of their chronic (mostly) benign pain syndromes. The majority of the Myofascial Pain articles were written by our visiting lecturers.

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Latest Pain articles and resources

Pain Message Board Forum ... Share your pain experience, tell us what worked and what didn't.

The Epidemiology of Pain: An Australian Study ... One in three households has a member in chronic pain.

Patients' Pain Communication Tool ... One of the problems pain patients face is to accurately convey to their healthcare practitioner meaningful information about their pain.

About Fibromyalgia and Myofascial - Trigger Point Dependent Pain ... If you haven't been palpated you haven't been examined.

About Acupuncture for the Management of Chronic Pain ... Studies and articles about Acupuncture as taught in Nanjing China 1978 on Western patients.

A Series of Powerpoint Lectures for Download ... Includes pain assessment tools, myofascial pain states, trigger points, treatment techniques...

Do Short Courses on Pain Management Provoke Changes in General Practice Pain Management ? ...Analysis of results of educational interventions.

Pain Assessment Clinical Audit Activity ... Designed for Australian Medical Practitioners