Improving Quality of Life

You can learn more by clicking on any of the topics below.

All of these topics are also covered in the PainApp tool, which you can access here.

Setting personal goals

Physical abilities and energy

• Triggers that can worsen fatigue
• Steps to improve fatigue
  • Exercise to improve fatigue
  • Eliminate barriers to sleep
  • Eat right
  • Manage Stress
  • Develop your plan to tackle fatigue
  • Change your mindset
• Make the most of your healthcare team
• Connect with family and friends
• Exercise  
• Patient stories, tips and tricks for combating fatigue
  • Belinda’s tips to reduce fatigue

Having a better quality of life

• Maintaining relationships with family and friends
• Fear of Pain
• Intimacy: Improving or maintaining sexual relations
• Travel doesn’t have to be a pain
• To work as long as possible
• To be able to socialize

Improving thinking, memory, and concentration

• Medications that may impair memory and clear thinking

Managing pain

• Managing pain with surgery and injections
• Managing pain with interactive therapies

Tips for working with your healthcare providers

Reducing fear, anger, and depression

• Dealing with fear of pain
• Inspiring messages about depression

Lowering treatment costs

• Gaining financial independence

Finding pain treatments with fewer risks

• How to tell if a natural product is effective?
• Quality control and dosing issues

Managing pain medications

Lifestyle changes to improve pain

• How smoking, drinking, not exercising regularly, and being overweight influence pain
• Smoking worsens chronic pain
• Drinking and pain
• Being overweight and pain
• Exercise can reduce pain