10-Footsteps Training
The CRG are collaborating with Live Well with Pain to provide the 10-Footsteps Training within Lincolnshire. The training programme comprises 3x 4-hour sessions and results in CPD certification. It aims to support healthcare professionals in using non-pharmacological pain management strategies and teaching supported self-management.
In Lincolnshire, we have places available for attending the national course, and we are also developing our own local provision, with the aim of providing this training in a local, sustainable way.
The Live Well With Pain 10 Footsteps is an online programme for developing confidence in pain self-management.
Pain scientists have shown that a biopsychosocial approach is more effective in managing chronic pain than the traditional medical model.
This is why Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), with its ‘five areas’ model of person-centred care, is increasingly seen as a useful framework for encouraging the development of self-management skills.
Ten Footsteps to Living Well with Pain builds on this five areas model, encouraging people to see how the different dimensions of their life have all been impacted by their pain – and how, in turn, making changes in their life can have a positive effect on how they experience their pain.
If you want to read more for yourself here is the online practitioner guide to the 10 Footsteps:
Ten Footsteps – a practitioners’ guide - Live Well with Pain
The patient version can be found here:
Ten Footsteps to Living Well with Pain - Live Well with Pain
The clinical reference group currently have a limited number of FREE places available in the 12 hour (3x4session) full course on how to start discussions with patients and hear from those with lived experience, if you are interested in attending please contact licb.mo@nhs.net.
These are open to any healthcare professional that has patient contact, we have so far trained Social Prescribers, Health and Wellbeing Coaches, Pharmacists, Physiotherapists and GPs.