January Wrap

Here’s what has caught my attention this month:

Online Gems

• The Connection - a feature documentary investigating the field of mind body medicine - only available online but well worth a watch for anyone with an interest in chronic health conditions.
• KIWI CRPS - a website / support group for patients with CRPS
• Health Navigator - a New Zealand site providing trusted health information and self-help resources - with pages on Acute Pain and Chronic Pain endorsed by the NZPS

In the News

• Stuff news article about ACC’s current Acupuncture spend

Pain Resources

• Pain Science Workbook – a free, online workbook kindly written and shared by Canadian Physiotherapist/Chiropractor Greg Lehman
• Pain Management Network - a initiative of the New South Wales Agency for Clinical Innovation, this site - aimed at improving self management skills and knowledge - provides information for both health professionals and patients

Professional Development Opportunities

• If you want an excuse to escape the New Zealand winter and visit the Tuscan countryside the IASP is holding the European Pain School is Siena in June

If you need something a bit closer to home:

• Mike ‘Know Pain’ Stewart is visiting New Zealand in April/May, running his two-day ‘A Practical Guide to Therapeutic Neuroscience Education’ course in both Auckland and Christchurch
• Both University of Otago and AUT offer IASP endorsed post graduate study in pain