Guidelines for Health Professionals
Grampian Guidance
Grampian Guidance - Home (sharepoint.com)
You will find further information and management guidelines for specific persistent pain conditions
Pain Data (www.paindata.org)
You can access a persistent pain manual in various languages on this site along with further specific patient information leaflets.
Chronic Pain Conversation (scottish.sharepoint.com/sites/GRAM-Guidance/Shared Documents/Chronic Pain Conversation.pdf)
A useful tool to guide a conversation about chronic pain and enable self-management. This is available at healthpoint; patients can referred for this or can drop in.
Patient Activation Measure for Physiotherapy
this is a guide to the timing of supported self management interventions within Physiotherapy. The guide and supporting documentation available on the NHSG MSK shared drive.
NICE Low back pain Guidelines
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/conditions-and-diseases/musculoskeletal-conditions/low-back-pain
SIGN Guideline
Management of chronic pain (sign.ac.uk)
NICE Neuropathic Guideline
www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg173
BMA Opioid Guideline
analgesics-chronic-pain.pdf (bma.org.uk)
CRPS Guidelines 2nd Edition
Complex regional pain syndrome in adults (2nd edition) | RCP London
Opioid Advice for patients and health professionals
https://fpm.ac.uk/opioids-aware