MATES on pain

THE Veterans’ Medicines Advice and Therapeutics Education Services (Veterans’ MATES) project has released a new module titled Understanding Chronic Pain.

Featuring information for both health professionals and veterans and their carers, the module states that understanding pain is the first step to recovery for patients with pain that has persisted for more than 12 weeks.

It urges a “biopsychosocial” strategy to help understand how patients might overcome the pain - see veteransmates.net.au.