Pain Modules

Our pain toolkit helps you personalise solutions

Every day you face questions about pain from patients. Because their pain is never one word. Haleon Pain Index informs us that 62% of patients would like greater awareness of how pain is individualised and 21% would like to focus on individual solutions through a plethora of resources.

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Pain modules

Pain modules to enhance understanding, skills and update you on the newer approaches in pain management. These cover a wide range of topics from holistic pain management to recommendation guide for commonly seen pain states.

Holistic pain management

Holistic pain management is about assessing not only the physical pain patients might feel, but also their social and emotional wellbeing. Healthcare professionals will take into account their patient’s medication profile, medicine history and consider not only pharmacological approaches to pain management, but also non-pharmacological, natural pain relief options. Explore how to look at treating pain holistically with patients in this module.

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OTC/Self-care vs Rx pain management

In this module, we look at what over-the-counter (OTC) pain treatments can be used to manage pain and how they differ from prescription pain medications.

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Protocol-based management of 9 most common pain states

A three-step protocol to aid with treating the 9 most common causes of pain for your patients, starting with assessing patients’ symptoms, identifying pain treatment considerations and then recommending treatment.

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Regimen approach to manage pain

In 40% of patients with joint or muscle or back pain HCPs recommend a combination of systemic with topical pain medication.¹ Clinical practice guidelines such as NICE² and EULAR³ also support regimen approach for management of OA pain. The new Biobank study conducted by Haleon showed favourable outcome with regimen of systemic with topicals in OA pain.