I first incurred a serious back injury at work in 1985. It was not able to be evidence-based for five years (at the time of surgery).
That Friday in June 1990 began like any other Friday – two adults, three teenagers, family pets, all heading out. I was totally unaware that this was the day "Super Mum" would die and life as I knew it would be over.
As a chronic migraine sufferer I've lived with pain since I was a small child. With the help of sub-occipital electrodes and an implanted pulse generator (IPG implant) I can now manage my daily pain and rely less on heavy medications.
It happened on 28 August 2008 at 8.28am. Everything after that is a bit of a blur, but the moment the accident happened will be stuck in my memory forever.
I injured my neck in 1993 while attending a Scout Jamboree in Canada as a carer for a child with cerebral palsy.My pain symptoms didn't really show up until 1997 when I started getting lots of neck and arm pain. 
When I was 25, I was living life to the full. Then, literally overnight, I became ill. It was 15 April 1998, a date I will never forget, when I woke up in severe pain. I had to crawl on my elbows and knees to go to the bathroom. I had pain in all my joints – it even hurt to breathe.
I had two major cycling accidents in the 1980s which caused a spinal fracture and severe whiplash.I quickly got over the accidents and was fine until the early 1990s when I started to have migraines. This gradually progressed to daily migraines by 1996.
I was nine years old when I damaged the ligaments in my left leg in a hurdling accident.After a year of treatment my leg hadn't healed – in fact the pain had worsened and I was diagnosed with chronic regional pain syndrome. 
My first taste of pain and injury was when I was only three years old.We had a car accident and I had my lower lumbar joints damaged as well as whiplash injuries to my neck. No one knew this at the time, though, and by the time I was nine I was having X-rays on my back to find out why I was in so much pain.
I was an advisory teacher when I suffered a spinal injury in 2007 that landed me in a Brisbane hospital emergency department.Thanks to a neurosurgeon, I regained the use of my left leg and the crushing pain eased. 
"Fortunately", the pain from my neck injury was so severe that it was taken seriously from the start.
My problems started in the early 1980s with the introduction of computers in most public service departments.In 1986,
My injury happened over two days – August 30-31, 2001 – when I was asked to reorganise the office's new filing system.
I'd survived the traumas of a major motor car accident, the ignominity of a prostatectomy, and the despair and exasperation of three separate cancers and their harsh therapies, but nothing had prepared me for the greatest challenge of my life, dealing with chronic pain
September 23, 2006 was a beautiful, still, sunny autumn day.I was in the UK to visit my elderly mother and other family members and had taken the train to London to visit a friend.
In 1962 at the age of 21, Renée was involved in a serious car accident that kept her in an English hospital - in a 40-bed geriatric ward - for nearly two years.
It was during a long jump attempt at my school's athletics try-outs when I was nine that I first hurt myself.As usual, I ran and jumped but as I hit the sand I felt pain in what I thought was my ankle.
Before my accident, about six years ago, I worked at a prestige car dealership in Brisbane. This work was physically demanding as well as being quite social. We all had to get on well as it could be quite a pressured environment and humour often kept us going.
6 when I was 17. Unrelated to any incident, I began to experience extreme back pain. I later discovered it was a degenerative disease with no cure, but at the time I thought it could just be 'fixed'.
I woke up one morning in 1988 with a sore back.As the pain continued to increase, I consulted my general practitioner who referred me to an orthopedic surgeon. After some tests, I was told that there were no problems and that the pain should go away. It didn't.
Harry Perkins, son of Olympic champion swimmer and Painaustralia Director Kieren Perkins OAM, was diagnosed with chronic migraine at the tender age of eleven.
Breast cancer is a diagnosis heard all too often these days at 13,000 diagnoses a year in Australia.
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"Patients face long wait times to access multi-disciplinary pain services in public hospitals - frequently more than a year - resulting in deterioration in quality of life and reduction in ability to return to work." - Waiting in Pain Report, Australian Pain Society |
Ongoing education and training in pain management and treatment is vital in order to provide the best possible healthcare to patients.
The following events and courses are designed to keep healthcare professionals up to date with new knowledge and best practice pain management options.
PMRI WEBINAR SKILLS TRAINING IN PAIN MANAGEMENT 7 May - 9 July 2013
Putting CBT into practice: webinar skills training for health professionals.
Five 90-minute webinar sessions conducted over 10 weeks. The first program will run from
7 May to 9 July 2013.
SOARING ABOVE PAIN PMRI LUNCHEON 19 July 2013
Professor Michael Cousins AM and Ms Jacqui Cooper, Australian world champion aerial skier, discuss the importance of early intervention in managing pain.
NSW Parliament House, Sydney
MAKING SENSE OF PAIN: HEALTH PROFESSIONALS TWO-DAY WORKSHOP 9-10 August 2013
The aim of this workshop is to provide physiotherapists and other health professionals with an opportunity to effectively translate their knowledge and skills into clinical practice. Of equal importance is that they become aware of their own beliefs and attitudes to people in pain and the potential for these attributes to colour therapeutic relationships and influence outcomes.
Wyllie Arthritis Centre, Perth
PMRI WEBINAR: PUTTING CBT INTO PRACTICE
For healthcare professionals who want to better help their patients manage chronic pain.
Two webinar series remaining for 2013: 6 Aug to 2 Oct and 15 Aug to 10 Oct.
Only 10 participants per webinar series.
SYMPOSIUM: UNDERSTANDING AND TREATING HEADACHE 19 October 2013
Optimising the application of latest thinking and evidence-based methods to manage headache.
Auditorium, Kolling Building, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney