NorthwestPainGuidance.org is a collaborative effort of providers in Oregon and Washington to support healthcare providers treating pain and individuals who suffer with persistent pain. Our mission is to provide evidence-based and easy to use educational resources for providers and the public. While the original intent was to serve Oregon and Washington, the website has become a national resource with over 75% of the users accessing the website from outside Oregon and Washington.
Our objective is to ensure that healthcare professionals and the public have easy access to educational resources to help treat and manage pain. Our emphasis is non-pharmacological pain management therapies for providers and self-management educational resources for individuals suffering with pain.
We support:
- Healthcare providers working with people experiencing pain
- People living with persistent pain and their caregivers seeking trusted, accessible educational materials on how to live better despite pain
We provide:
- Clinical guidelines and tools for providers
- Timely updates on pain management policy and practice
- Announcements about conferences, events, and webinars
- Educational handouts and videos for patients
- Social media outreach directly to the public
Our Advisory Group
Our Website Advisory Group provides direction and develops content for this website. The Advisory Group is composed of:
- Practicing clinicians from diverse disciplines and care settings (urban and rural)
- Members with lived experience of pain
- Content reviewers who are recognized experts in the field of pain
We meet ten times a year to:
- Identify practice and knowledge gaps in the treatment of pain
- Develop practical guidance for providers to address these practice and knowledge gaps
- Develop educational resources for the public so they can self-manage their pain by learning how pain works and making healthy lifestyle changes
- Promote and disseminate these tools, guidance, and educational resources to providers and the general public
Pain Psychologist
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
School of Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University
Assistant Professor in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Director of TelePain and the Pain & Opioid Provider Consulting Hotline
University of Washington
Stuart Rosenblum, MD, PhD
Consultant to Sound Pain Alliance
Previous Director of the Oregon Interventional Pain Consultants
Portland, Oregon
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry
Division of General Internal Medicine, Section of Addiction Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University
Director
Northwest Pain Guidance
Pain Education Toolkit
Our Partnerships
We work in partnership with:
- Recognized experts in pain medicine
- Healthcare clinics and healthcare systems in the Northwest
- State health authorities
- Professional boards and associations
Commitment to Evidence-based Guidance and Accessibility
Every resource we provide is aligned with current best practices and relevant federal and state guidelines. We provide information in formats that are easy to understand and quick to implement—for both clinicians and the people they serve.
Contact Information
For information about NorthwestPainGuidance.org and for questions on the use of website content, please email to info@NorthwestPainGuidance.org