Living with Pain 
For advice, information, resources and support on living with pain, please click on the links below to find out more about what is available.
The NHS provides advice and guidance on managing pain, including information, support and strategies to help you to manage your pain. Please click on the links below to find out more.
- How to get NHS help for your pain - this includes information on the steps you need to take, what happens next, information on support groups, pain clinics and pain management programmes.
- Ten ways to reduce pain - the NHS also produces a simple guide on ten steps you can take which may help you to ease your pain.
The MSK together service is a unique partnership of health organisations across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood.
They have a range of specialist healthcare professionals including Physiotherapists, Orthopaedic Doctors, Advanced Clinical Practitioners and Occupational Therapists who can help you manage a range of problems like low back or neck pain, arthritis and any issue affecting your muscles, joints, bones or tendons which we call musculoskeletal (MSK) problems.
They aim to help people understand and self-manage any Musculoskeletal (MSK) condition through timely appointments, local therapy sessions and providing the right care at the right time.
There are several ways for you to make use of their services:
- Click HERE to find out more about how to refer yourself to Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy.
- Be referred to us by your GP or MSK First Contact Practitioner.
- Ask your GP reception team for a self-referral to our services without seeing your GP first.
You can also find out more useful information by clicking on each of the links below:
Your appointment - everything you need to know about your upcoming appointment.
How to prepare for your surgery - actions to take before surgery which can impact your recovery.
Getting to our hospitals - useful information to help you to attend your appointment.
Self Care - information on managing the following diagnosed health conditions:
Pain Concern is a charity working to support people living with pain and those who care for them.
They work to improve the lives of people with pain, professionals and anyone who cares for someone in pain.
Pain Concern produces web-publications, leaflets and self-management resources which are free to download. If you would like to order printed leaflets for individual use, please click HERE to go to their website where you can add information and resources to your basket and checkout free of charge.
- Web Publications and Leaflets
- Airing Pain - They produce a podcast and radio programme to bring people in pain and top specialists together to talk about resources which can help.
- Pain Matters - They produce a quarterly magazine (at a cost of £5) which contains news and features on self-management techniques, pain treatments and personal experiences of living with pain.
- Helpline - They offer a telephone and email service to individuals in the UK through their helpline. Their call and email handlers are trained and skilled Helpline volunteers who aim to support and empower callers. Call on 0300 123 0789 or email help@painconcern.org.uk
- Peer Support - the online community where you can talk to others who have a shared experience of living with pain.
- Self Management - practical information and resources to help you to manage your pain including Pain Concern's Self Management Navigator Tool and 'Questions to ask your health-care professional' which has some suggested questions that you might want to ask.
Action on Pain is a charity providing support and advice for people affected by chronic pain. Their website provides a range of advice, support and practical help on managing your pain. Click on the links below to find out more.
- Create a pain plan
- Painline telephone support service - PainlIne is open between 1000-1600hrs Monday to Friday with an answerphone out of hours on 01553 828926.
- Action on Pain's Box of Tricks - full of helpful hints, tips and practical ways to help you to manage your pain.
- Helpful advice - ideas which may help to reduce your pain.
- Therapies - a list of the different types of therapies which might help you to effectively manage your pain.
- Publications for you to download.
- How a Pain Psychologist may be able to help you.
The BPS is the oldest Pain Society in the UK, bringing together clinicians, academics, patients and carers to explore the complexity of pain and to help manage it better. They're passionate about putting people in touch with the very best support and advice so that they can make informed decisions about their treatment, learn about their pain and get better at managing it themselves.
The BPS has produced its own expert guides for patients, and carers, click HERE to find out more. They also have Links to organisations - a really useful list of organisations and information on managing pain from different conditions.
Live Well with Pain was created by a small group of health care professionals in England working in pain management, using a self management approach with their patients. Seeing how successful it could be, they wanted to share their approach with more people.
- New resources for 2025 - Nutrition Top Tips - Live Well with Pain has put together some top tips for people living with persistent pain.
- Real Life Stories to Inspire you - video clips of people sharing their experiences of living with pain.
- Shortcuts - learn new skills for living well despite the pain.
- Leaflets - download leaflets on pacing yourself, setting goals, ten footsteps on how to better manage your pain, how to sleep well with pain, how to manage setbacks and where medicines fit in.
- Tools for professionals - Live Well with Pain has developed a rich collection of self-management tools and techniques for use by clinicians and other practitioners working with people with pain.
The Pain Relief Foundation is a UK charity supporting people living with pain. They have condition specific leaflets for you to download providing information and advice on living with pain and information on pain relief:
- Arthritis
- Cancer
- Central Post Stroke Pain
- Chronic Pelvic Pain in Men
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- Dental Pain
- Diabetic Neuropathy
- Drugs for Nerve Pain
- Facial Neuralgias
- Fibromyalgia
- Headaches
- Lower Back Pain
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Neropathic Pain
- Opiods
- Over the Counter Medicine for Pain Relief
- Pelvic Pain
- Phantom Limb Pain
- Post Therpetic Neuralgia
- Sciatica
- Sex
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
Click HERE to go to their website where you can download these leaflets and access other information and support.
Information and advice for people managing pain with a terminal illness. Click HERE to find out more.
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