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In this issue:

Issue 107
  • A message from the CEO
  • Pain Awareness Month
  • Daniel Scali receives Guinness planking record
  • Call to join the Painaustralia Consumer Advisory Group
  • National Pain Service Directory developments
  • Painaustralia membership update
  • Using ketamine in the management of chronic non-cancer pain (PILOT)
  • Post-market Review of Opiate Dependence Treatment Program (ODTP) Medicines
  • A new model of care for rural and remote areas
  • My Hospitals Report 2019-20
  • Changes to MBS coverage of some pain treatments
  • DSCATT Clinical Pathway report
  • Senator for WA Rachel Siewert addresses Parliamentary response to Vaginal Mesh implants
  • Vic Cannabis report
  • Kolling Institute, Neuroscience and Pain Research Showcase Webinar
  • In brief
  • Guest Article: Painaustralia board director Professor Lorimer Moseley AO

In brief

  • The University of South Australia needs your help to complete an online survey that aims to better understand back pain. Your input will be valuable to helping people experiencing back pain.
  • This year, for the first time, the Census included a question about Australians living with long-term health conditions. This raises the question, given its prevalence, should chronic pain get a specific question in the Census? Make sure to vote here by 5pm on 19 September. Look out for the results on Painaustralia's social media.
  • Register now for the Pain Society Alberta World Pain Summit 2021. Painaustralia CEO Carol Bennett will be a panellist on this high quality, evidence-informed, and diverse virtual event aimed at improving pain management strategies, being held on 15-17 October 2021.

Tara Moss, Best Selling Author and Painaustralia's Pain Champion was interviewed by Body & Soul about the regular, ongoing agony of living with chronic pain.

Media

  • On 30 August 2021, Painaustralia CEO Carol Bennett was quoted in an article on pudendal nerve pain caused by Prostatitis, published in the Sydney University newspaper Honi Soit.
  • On 25 August 2021, Painaustralia CEO Carol Bennett was quoted in an article on the cost of back pain in Australia published in the Sydney Sun.
  • On 22 August 2021, Tara Moss, Painaustralia Pain Champion, was interviewed by Body & Soul about the regular, ongoing agony of living with chronic pain.
  • On 5 August 2021, Gabriella Kelly-Davies, author of Breaking through the Pain Barrier: The Extraordinary Life of Dr Michael J. Cousins, was interviewed on 89.7 Eastside FM.
  • On 5 August 2021, Gabriella Kelly-Davies, author of Breaking through the Pain Barrier: The Extraordinary Life of Dr Michael J. Cousins had an article titled Why Covid Infections Leave Some Patients in Chronic Pain published on the Pain News Network.
  • On 5 August 2021, Gabriella Kelly-Davies, author of Breaking through the Pain Barrier: The Extraordinary Life of Dr Michael J. Cousins was interviewed in the Mosman Daily Mail.
  • On Sunday 1 August 2021, Painaustralia CEO Carol Bennett spoke to Chris Smith on Sydney radio station 2GB about pain management in Australia.

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