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Women and Newborn Health Library (WNHL): Pain Management

A guide to consumer health information in the areas of women's and newborn health.

Resources in the Library

Living with chronic pain : from ok to despair and finding my way back again by Dr Dawn Macintyre
Call Number: WL 704 MAC
ISBN: 9781922265890
Publication Date: 2020
A personal journey interwoven with practical advice and insights for changes and support to help the millions of sufferers of chronic pain enjoy life again
Pain and perception : a closer look at why we hurt by Daniel Harvie
Call Number: WL 704 HAR
ISBN: 9780648022756
Publication Date: 2021
Are the things we see, hear and feel as simple as they appear to be? The modern science of perception has unearthed new ways to think about pain
Pelvic pain explained by Elizabeth H. Rummer
Call Number: WP 155 PRE
ISBN: 9781442248311
Pelvic Pain Explained is the story of how patients develop pelvic pain, the challenges patients and providers face throughout the diagnosis and treatment process.
Rewire your pain : an evidence-based approach to reducing chronic pain by Dr Stephanie Davies
Call Number: WL 704 DAV
ISBN: 9780994368607
Rewire your pain delivers a complete recovery program, based on medical science, including simple and effective daily habits that have a dramatic and positive impact on the experience of pain.

Pamphlets and fact sheets

Beating pain (Jean Hailes)
Managing your chronic pain (NSW Health)
Medicines used to manage pain (KEMH)
Pain (Healthy WA)
Pain and pain management – adults (Better Health)
Pain management acute - child (Better Health)
Pain Management for children (PCH)
Pelvic pain for women
Pelvic girdle pain (The Royal Women's Hospital)
Pelvic girdle pain is pain in the pelvic joints that may develop during or after pregnancy.
Trust me I'm an expert: the science of pain
Understanding chronic pelvic pain for teens (Pelvic Pain Foundation)

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Websites and support groups

Pain Health (WA Health)
Australian Pain Management Association
Chronic Pain Australia Chronic Pain Australia is the national grass roots voice of Australians living with chronic pain. Chronic Pain Australia also works towards de-stigmatising chronic pain.
Endometriosis Western Australia WArriors (Facebook group)
Painaustralia : working to prevent and manage pain
Pelvic Pain Foundation Australia
Physiotherapy at KEMH
Women's Health & Research Institute of Australia

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