By Soula Mantalvanos|2022-11-26T20:58:48+11:00December 29th, 2020|Categories: Advocacy, Learn, Personal resources|Tags: advocacy, education, member resource, My Health Story, pain management, Pain Train, personal story, self management|
In November this year, I was invited to present my pain experience to a group of 40 GP's.
The topic was: An Approach to Chronic Non-Cancer Pain and the workshop was facilitated by Dr Paul Grinzi for Murray City Country Coast GP Training.
Where does one start when asked to present to 40 pain interested GP's in 20 minutes?
There's a great emoji to illustrate the look on my face when I ponder this question. You can well imagine.
As an 'expert' in my 'field' 20 minutes to describe 13 years of living with chronic pain of which 4.5 years were spent lost in a forest is still a tough gig. However, this was a presentation to medical professionals. And they know everything, right?
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I've decided to make this video a paid resource. All proceeds go towards funding this website and PainTrain – My Health Summary.
What do I talk about in my video?
— O:43 My story
— 2:50 Investigating pain, research & treatment
— 4:26 Diagnosis
— 5:55 Advocacy
— 7:45 The experience of pain
— 8:27 Medication
— 9:35 Characteristics of Pain
— 10:55 Planning life with chronic pain
— 12:09 Pain management
— 13:50 PainTrain