The programme covers every area of how to manage living with pain including: 

  • Appropriate exercise for maintaining and improving strength and endurance
  • How our minds affect pain and how we can use our minds to lessen pain 
  • Balancing activity with rest 
  • Tools for overcoming worst-case thinking
  • Negative emotions
  • Healthy eating
  • Appropriate use of medication 
  • Working more effectively with health care providers
  • Communicating with friends and family
  • Communicating with the health care system
  • Communicating with oneself
  • Action-planning, problem-solving, decision-making