More than 1 in 5 Australians live with persistent pain.
To help ease the burden of chronic pain, The Hospital Research Foundation Group is proud to support a number of trials and care initiatives in post-surgery pain, cancer-related pain, back pain, osteoarthritis, palliative care, endometriosis and more.
Pain Support
Investigating whether Bright Light Therapy can improve pain management, daily function and sleeping patterns in people with chronic pain.
Researcher
Dr Tiffany Gill hopes to improve the quality of life for people living with chronic pain by improving sleep, through a portable glasses-like device with built-in LEDs.
Analysing whether music therapy can lessen the perception of pain, improve quality of life and reduce a patient’s time in hospital.
Researcher
Dr Patsy Tan plays guitar, keyboard, harp and more to help ease patients’ pain and anxiety in hospital.
Bringing VR technology into physiotherapy clinics across Australia through ready-to-use, clinician/patient-friendly devices to improve osteoarthritis pain.
Researcher
Associate Professor Tasha Stanton says VR technology can help exercise be less painful for people with osteoarthritis, important to prevent the condition from worsening.
Testing whether newly developed biosensor technology, capable of discriminating between nerve and bone pain, can measure and predict the development of persistent post-surgical pain.
Researcher
Dr Dusan Matusica hopes to improve the persistent chronic pain that some patients experience after their surgical procedure.
Using hypnosis techniques to enhance traditional pain management for people suffering from chronic back pain.
This study looks at delivering Pain Science Education, a well-established intervention for people with chronic pain, via hypnosis.
Helping the Rheumatology Unit at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital find new treatments for painful knee and hand osteoarthritis through trial of new drugs.
Researcher
Professor Catherine Hill leads many clinical trials aimed at easing the pain for people with arthritis.
Developing an innovative pain management program, called ‘Pain Science Education’ to help ease the pain experienced by women with endometriosis and take away the anxiety from their upcoming laparoscopy procedure.
Researcher
Dr Jane Chalmers is developing the ‘Pain Science Education’ program for women to better understand the neuro-biology of their pain before their laparoscopy.
Investigating the safety and efficacy of both patient-controlled and nurse-controlled infusion pumps to deliver pain medication to people in palliative care.
Pain is a common symptom at the end of life and medications that relieve pain are commonly used.
Facilitating the purchase 10 new CADD pumps (short for Continuous Ambulatory Delivery Device) for The Queen Elizabeth Hospital’s Pain Management Unit to help control intractable pain, often caused by cancer.
The pumps have greatly improved the quality of life for patients and are safe, mobile and compact to carry around.
