HOW TO MANAGE AND MINIMIZE PAIN FLARE-UPS
Pain flare-ups happen. You can help your patients learn to reduce the chance of a chronic pain flare-up and, if one happens, to minimize the pain. By planning ahead, your patients can better understand how to avoid pain flare-ups and to manage the pain when a flare-up happens.
HOW A PLAN CAN HELP WITH FLARE-UPS
With a flare-up plan, your patients can take control and have options ready to manage and minimize their pain. This plan will help them to learn about their triggers and includes suggestions for their own personal flare-up kit.
VIDEO
The Pain Flare-up video has four sections:
- What can cause or trigger a flare-up?
- What to do when you are having a flare-up?
- How to avoid or minimize a flare-up?
- How to create a flare-up kit
The video contains all the educational content, so be sure to have the patient watch the entire video.
HANDOUT
Download the handout to learn about:
- What a Flare-up is
- How to Balance Self-Assessment with Quality of Life
- Signs and Symptoms of Flare-ups
- Coping Strategies
- Planning Ahead for Flare-ups with Your Patients
- Advising Patients About When to Go to the ER
- Flare-ups and Changes in Medications or Other Treatments
RESOURCES
- What Constitutes Back Pain Flare? A Cross-Sectional Survey of Individuals with Low Back Pain
- Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education, and Research
- Defining Flare in Osteoarthritis of the Hip and Knee: A Systematic Literature Review
- Older Peoples’ Strategies for Coping with Chronic Nonmalignant Pain: A Qualitative Meta-synthesis
- Pain-Related Fear, Disability, and the Fear-Avoidance Model of Chronic Pain
