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Conference 2025Enthusiasm for change at our first ever national conference
Thank you to everyone who attended the Live Well with Pain Footsteps to Change Conference 2025 and for all your contributions and support on the day. There was a genuine enthusiasm among those attending to make a difference to the lives of people with long term pain and to embrace new ways of working to achieve this. We look forward to continuing to support this process of change, so that people with pain will be able to access the knowledge, skills and support they need to live well despite their persistent pain.
Welcome to Live Well with Pain
Our website is all about learning new approaches and skills to help you live well, despite your persistent pain. Our tools and resources are tried and tested – many are now regularly used across the NHS to help people to learn how to self-manage their pain.
We also encourage you to find the right support – from healthcare practitioners and others – who can work with you on your self-management journey.
That journey starts here – so please explore our resources.
Nutrition and pain
We’re always developing new resources to help you live well with pain. New for 2025 is Nutrition and pain – a collection of top nutrition tips and recipes especially designed for people with pain. We’ve even created a handy self assessment tool to help you see how you’re doing with your current diet and explore where you might want to make changes. Check it out here:
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Desperate for a good night’s sleep?
Want to reduce your pain meds?
Need help getting back to being active?
Why can’t I say what I need to my doctor?
How do I deal with feeling low?
Find out fast with Shortcuts – top tips for the things that matter most to people who are living with persistent pain.
Live Well with Pain’s training programme for practitioners, accredited by the Personalised Care Institute, is based on the core self-management themes embedded in our respected Ten Footsteps Programme.
Our courses give practitioners the skills and confidence they need to guide people with pain on their self-management journey.
“The resources were superb”
“Helped me put together a toolkit that I can use to support patients going forward”
“It gave me everything I needed and more”
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“The trainers were very authentic and engaging. You could tell that they all cared a lot about what they were talking about and this made the training feel exciting and helpful. The lived experience element was perfect for this type of training.”
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What is pain self-management?
More than a third of the population live with persistent pain. It is a long term condition and cannot be ‘fixed or cured’. Traditional medical treatments such as pain medicines are now recognised as having only limited value.
Instead, a different way of living with persistent pain is growing in influence. It’s called a ‘self-management’ approach.
Thinking about reducing your pain medicines?
If you have been taking pain relieving medicines for three months or more and still have pain that is preventing you from doing what you want, then it’s likely the medicines are not working for you.
You should never simply stop taking pain medicines suddenly. But with the right kind of support and planning it is perfectly possible to reduce or stop completely. Here’s how:
Who is behind Live Well with Pain?
Live Well with Pain is run by an alliance of healthcare professionals working in pain management and people with lived experience of persistent pain.
They share a passionate belief in the power of self-management to improve life for people with pain.
By combining their professional and personal experience they have developed a range of self-management resources that have been tried and tested over many years.
They have built this website to share these resources with others.
