Events
Living with Pain as a Young Adult
March 25, 2024
This workshop discusses the common challenges faced by young adults living with pain, where to find support, and how to improve transitions from pediatric to adult health care or discharge from specialized pain services.
Perspectives from Women Living with Chronic Pain: A Panel Discussion
March 7, 2024
This workshop highlights the challenges, impacts, and management strategies of chronic pain from the perspective of women who live with pain.
What is harm reduction and how does it relate to the treatment of pain?
March 4, 2024
Join this workshop learn about the principles of harm reduction in coping with chronic pain.
Boost Your Mood
February 22, 2024
In this workshop we review the connection between pain and mood, and strategies to boost your mood despite pain.
Navigating Pain and Substance Use with Compassion and Understanding
February 20, 2024
In this workshop, we discuss how we treat pain safely and effectively for people who use substances outside of a medical plan.
Let’s Talk About Chronic Pain: Communication & Chronic Pain
February 9, 2024
If you want to learn about self-advocacy, assertive communication with friends/family, and identify strategies to improve relationships in the context of chronic pain - watch this workshop.
Back To Movement
February 7, 2024
This workshops gives you guidance on a brief gentle low back exercise routine that you can do anytime and what to do if/when pain increases when you are exercising.
Are You Sleeping with One Eye Open?
February 1, 2024
In this workshop we discuss the things that can get in the way of sleep and practical strategies you can use to sleep well with pain.
How to Get Involved in Your Pain Care
January 30, 2024
This workshop provides strategies to build a pain management plan that fits yous needs and this can be shared your supports and health care providers.
Mindfulness & Chronic Pain
January 26, 2024
This presentation includes how and why mindfulness can be an effective tool for managing chronic pain. It will provide the neuroscience of why we can so easily get hijacked by our stress response during pain and how mindfulness can possibly counter this. Learn about the theory and then put it into practise with some mindfulness exercises.
Perspectives from Men living with Chronic Pain: A Panel Discussion
January 25, 2024
This panel discussion hosts four men living with chronic pain and the challenges and impacts of chronic pain from their perspective.
Gender and Pain
January 16, 2024
Join this webinar to learn how gender can affect how pain is perceived, assessed and treated.
Your Nervous System: A Key to Chronic Pain Management
January 11, 2024
Join this webinar to learn how your nervous system changes and adapts to our experiences. Nearly 8 million Canadians live with chronic pain. With the World Health Organization now recognizing chronic pain as a disease and not just a symptom, pain education is integral in helping individuals learn to cope with their pain and to help them feel more empowered. To understand the complexities of pain, we talk about pain neuroscience and how the nervous system processes all pain experiences and how through neuroplasticity, the nervous system has the ability to change and adapt to our experiences.
Introduction to Mindfulness
December 15, 2023
This workshop will focus on the foundation of mindfulness for chronic pain, including basic meditation exercises that can be part of a pain management plan.
Sweet Dreams, Pain
November 17, 2023
Most people living with pain report problems with sleep, yet insomnia continues to be significantly undertreated despite how essential it is to our quality of life and effective coping with pain. Watch this workshop to learn more about sleep, and effective strategies that you can implement in your own life to say sweet dreams to pain at night.
Advocate and Navigate the Health Care System
November 14, 2023
Do you feel like you’re walking through a health care maze? Don’t know where or whom to talk to? What they’re talking about? What’s going on with your health? And do you feel heard?
Thinking About Pain
November 10, 2023
The things we say to ourselves and how they shape our feelings and behaviors and vice versa. This is a fundamental aspect of the cognitive-behavioral perspective in the management of chronic pain.
Living with Chronic Pain: Challenges and Solutions
November 9, 2023
Chronic pain can impact our well-being and quality of life. Panelists from the Power Over Pain Portal’s Lived Experience Advisory Committee (LEAC) will share some of their challenges in living with chronic pain and their thoughts about moving their life forward with chronic pain.
Chronic Pain Network: Changing the way pain is managed in Canada
November 9, 2023
The Chronic Pain Network (CPN) is a CIHR Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research funded network, that was launched in 2016. CPN is a pan-Canadian collaboration of patients, researchers, healthcare professionals, educators, industry, and government policy advisors aimed at directing new research in chronic pain, training researchers and clinicians, and translating findings into knowledge and policy. In 2022, CPN received additional funding to focus on the Knowledge Mobilization and Implementation Science (CPN KM-IS) of research in chronic pain. This presentation will provide a historical look at how pain research in Canada has changed in the past six years and what to expect from CPN moving forward.
Body Mapping: Exercises to release the tension from the top-down
November 9, 2023
Does your body hold tension that just doesn’t want to let go? Watch this recording and learn exercises to improve mind-body connection, re-train the brain and nervous system to let go of holding muscle tension and improve efficiency of movement. This workshop is on body mapping and exploring the mind-body connection. Presented by Cristin Kragus from The Ottawa Hospital Pain Clinic.
IMPACT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain
November 7, 2023
This 1-hour workshop will describe the IMPACT program, an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) based program. Participants will learn what ACT is and what it is not. Learn some concrete tools that you can use to decrease the impact of pain (physical and emotional) on your ability to engage in a life that matters.
Pacing: Moving Ahead Instead of in Circles
November 1, 2023
An overview and explanation of pacing concepts; potential barriers that can be experienced in implementing pacing strategies into one's lifestyle; and specific ways to work to develop more consistency and break unhelpful vicious cycles. Learn the basic concepts of pacing and how recognize areas where you can make specific changes in your usual approach to activities, toward increasing your overall function while controlling pain.
Mindful Movement
October 24, 2023
Mindfulness has exploded in popularity as a tool for managing chronic pain. During this 60-minute webinar, Dr. Abi Muere, Clinical Psychologist, and Mia Dang, Physiotherapist, provide information on what mindfulness is and the benefits of mindfulness for chronic pain management. The facilitators demonstrate a brief mindful breath exercise and a longer mindful movement exercise.
Disability Tax Credit and Other Financial Resources
October 23, 2023
Curious about possible financial resources available to you? You could be eligible for tax credits and certain programs. Watch this workshop recording for more information!
Parenting with Chronic Pain
October 17, 2023
Parenting with chronic pain can be difficult at times. This workshop reviews basic parenting coping strategies to use when you have pain.
Pain Is Stressful
October 17, 2023
Relaxation exercises can help individuals cope with stress, including stress that comes with having chronic pain. During this 60-minute workshop, we will provide information on what relaxation exercises are and the benefits of relaxation exercises for chronic pain management. The facilitators will demonstrate several relaxation exercises, including deep breathing and guided imagery exercises. A question and answer period is available at the end of the workshop.
Making Sense of Diet and Pain
October 11, 2023
This workshop provides a broad look at a spectrum of circulating hype, evidence, and intriguing propositions that link what we eat to our physiological responses to injury, pain, and inflammation. This workshop intends to help patients and their allies, and clinicians to better understand the divergent approaches that guide caregivers in providing nutrition recommendations, and to make some sense of advice and admonitions that initially may seem too simplistic, somewhat arbitrary, or just plain confounding. You will take away a few realistic and sustainable ideas to make food related changes.
Why Do I Hurt?
October 4, 2023
When pain persists and becomes chronic, there is often little time spent explaining what is happening. Watch this recording to learn about how pain works in our body, and understand the role of the nervous system in pain and coping.
Low Back Pain
September 29, 2023
Dr. Eugene Wai discusses what causes low back pain and a hint - it's usually complicated. Watch this video review the care gap in back pain management in Canada and what individuals can do.
Mastering the Art of Food Choice
September 21, 2023
This workshop is led by Dr. Christine McIntosh, Ph.D. Watch this recording to hear about the latest science on how food and nutrition impact persistent pain and make an immediate step in one new food habit to help nourish you and work against pain. You'll leave the webinar with a long term view of how you can change your food ways to manage daily pain.
Pain and Trauma
September 19, 2023
This workshop is led by Dr. Patricia Poulin, Ph.D., C.Psych, Clinical Health and Rehabilitation Psychologist at The Ottawa Hospital Pain Clinic. Trauma can impact the body and the mind and contribute to chronic pain. Watch this recording to learn about ways to decrease the impact of trauma for better health and well-being.
Sleeping Well Despite Pain
August 15, 2023
People who live with pain commonly report experiencing issues with sleep and, conversely, poor sleep can make it more difficult to manage pain. Dr. Josh Rash PhD, RPsych will explores the complex interplay between sleep and pain, with a focus on practical considerations for the management of sleep disturbance among people who live with pain. The goal is to provide insights on how to improve the management of pain by optimizing sleep.
Empowering People Through Peer Support
July 14, 2023
This workshop presented by Virginia McIntyre and Melanie McDonald explores the following:
- The benefits of pain peer support
- How peer support can help improve quality of life and pain self-management skills
- Pain peer support offerings across Canada