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Pain Connect is a national platform where you can learn about and connect to chronic pain research taking place across Canada.
Text LinkPAIN+ CPN is a Knowledge Translation initiative of the Chronic Pain Network and is updated regularly to provide access to current best evidence from health care research to help inform health care professionals, individuals living with pain and caregivers.
Text LinkPain BC's new Find Help directory is designed to connect people across British Columbia with health care professionals who provide services to people with chronic pain. The directory includes a wide range of pain-related health services—from physiotherapy to mental health support—and features health care professionals and clinics that meet Pain BC’s inclusion criteria.
Text LinkSickKids offers a variety of pain related free online courses.
Text LinkThe Surgical Patient Optimization collaboration SPOC aims to improve assessment and management of these patients, which will in turn reduce adverse events, increase patient and caregiver satisfaction, and improve post-operative outcomes, and address the need for a coordinated approach to surgical patient prehabilitation in BC.
Text LinkThis podcast from the Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence in Canadian Veterans covers all aspects of chronic pain by presenting evidence-based information that provides better insight into chronic pain.
Text LinkDeveloped by pain psychologists at Stanford University, Empowered Relief® is a two-hour online program that teaches essential pain-management skills, delivered monthly by Pain Canada’s Empowered Relief®-certified clinicians. Register an upcoming session to learn about pain, gain pain relief skills you can use right away, and create a personal plan for pain relief plan.
Text LinkBud Talks is an exciting new initiative by the Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Medicinal Cannabis Research at McMaster University and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. Their mission is to make understanding cannabis easy, approachable, and backed by science.
Text LinkThe Women’s Chronic Pain and Prescription Opioid Project developed a suite of sex, gender, equity, and trauma-informed resources for providers that reflect women’s lived and living experiences with chronic pain and prescription opioids. The Centre of Excellence for Women's Health interviewed and consulted with women who have used prescription opioids for chronic pain, in order to embed women’s experiences, opinions and recommendations into these resources for health care providers and educators, researchers, health system planners, and other women.
Text LinkIn this video, Lindsay Wolfson and Liv Schultz, two people who experience chronic pain from the Centre of Excellence of Women's Health, provide an overview of what was found in the literature and heard in interviews during the Women’s Chronic Pain and Prescription Opioid Project.
Text LinkThis document is a policy report that examines the research on sex and gender factors affecting chronic pain and applies SGBA+ to Health Canada's Action Plan for Pain in Canada.
Text LinkThis guide supports healthcare providers and other health and social service providers who work with women and gender diverse individuals living with chronic pain. It explores sex- and gender-related factors that impact chronic pain, information about women’s experiences with prescribed opioids, and opportunities to build upon comprehensive pain management strategies.
Text LinkThis information package was designed by researchers and people with lived experience of chronic pain at the Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, as part of a larger study on women’s chronic pain and prescription opioid use. The information included is intended to help you learn more about women’s chronic pain and strategies for pain management.
Text LinkThis information guide was designed by researchers and people with lived experience of chronic pain at the Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, as part of a larger study on women’s chronic pain and prescription opioid use. The information included will help you learn more about women’s chronic pain and strategies for pain management to support your practice and facilitate trusting relationships with patients.
Text LinkThe Quebec Pain Research Network is offering various research support opportunities, including funding, recruitment, mentorship and many more as part of their Strategic Action Plan development.
Text LinkIf you’ve never worked with patient partners or caregivers in your research before (or even if you have!), the CPN Patient Engagement Committee and Network patient partners have some ideas for you to consider. In this, you will find the definition of Patient Engagement and some thoughts about the way you might work with us so that we may bring our lived experience to your research project as collaborators or partners.
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