Chronic Pain Management Pathway

This pathway was created by the North Shore Division of Family Practice and provides a brief overview of steps you can take to manage your pain and improve your function. The form is meant to be completed in collaboration with a health practitioner and should be used as a tool to ensure a person's health care team have accurate, up-to-date information about their pain management. 

Download the Pathway now.

Resources from the Pathway

Getting Started

• Visit Pain BC website
• Take this free course to learn about pain
• Hear from others with chronic pain

Tools

• Review the Pain Toolbox

• Review the Canadian Pain Toolkit

• Make a pain plan

• Review video on Bounce Back to know more about anxiety and depression

• Learn to rethink persistent pain

• Review My Opioid Manager

• Learn about box breathing

• Learn about coping with chronic pain

• Learn to set goals to make positive change

Community Services

• Self-Management BC supports self-management 
• People in Pain connects you with peers
• Pain Support Line provides support for social challenges 
• Bounce Back Online provides online support when feeling depressed, stressed or anxious
• Contact the North Shore Chronic Pain Support Group
• Find help near you