Important information about Spined
This is an educational pain self-management program, designed and translated from scientific research and clinical experience in rehabilitation and pain medicine. It has been translated from Kneed which has been tested in a clinical trial.
The Spined program will help you improve your knowledge of pain to enable you to use our training programs and strategies that help to reduce pain, improve function, health and quality of life.
Who is Spined designed for?
This program is for anyone who has non-surgical back pain.
It is particularly designed:
- for people who want to have less pain
- for people who want to walk better
- for people who want to understand their pain
- for people who want to be able to do more
- for people who have done everything right but still haven’t recovered as they wished
- for people who want to get on with their life
- for people who want to return to their favourite recreational activities
- for people who want to return to travel, volunteering and work
This program is not able to diagnose or investigate your pain
If you are concerned that you have a serious back problem, you should seek help from your doctor.
If you feel depressed and/or suicidal you should seek help immediately from your medical practitioner or via an online support service – Australian supports here.
How to benefit from Spined.
This program is about learning.
But, you don’t have to take in all of the knowledge presented to you in this program.
You can learn at your own pace. But, be open to new ideas.
There are quizzes throughout each module that are important to complete to improve your pain and health knowledge.
The quizzes will help you think through your thoughts, feelings and actions about pain in a variety of life’s scenarios. They will help build your pain problem solving skills, help you develop action plans and motivate you to succeed.
How long does it take to get better?
The time to get started is NOW.
The aim of this program is to see improvements in pain, function and quality of life over 6 to 12 weeks.
This will depend on how quickly you are able to learn pain knowledge and adapt it to your situation, start regular exercise and activities, try new methods and adopt new strategies.
How do you know if Spined is working?
There are 10 ways to measure your success:
1. Reduced pain
– Reduced intensity of pain
– Less spread of pain (the size of the area experiencing pain reduces)
– (More) pain-free times
2. Reduced number and intensity of pain flare-ups
3. Improved function (you can do more)
4. Achieving your goals that you can set in the goal setting module
5. Improved participation (doing more in the community like socialising or work)
6. Reduced need for medication
7. Reduced need for healthcare (GP, specialist, physiotherapist (physical therapist), trips to hospital) to manage your pain
8. Improved mood, anxiety or stress levels
9. Improved sleep
10. Improved quality of life
The Spined modules were originally designed to be done by starting with the knowledge modules, followed by the training modules and then the strategy modules.
But they can be done in any order that you like, as often as you like over 8 weeks.
The Spined guide gives you a problem-based approach to direct you to the Kneed modules that relate to questions that you might have.
The Quiz page gives you direct access to all of the quizzes whenever you want to test your knowledge.
Feedback is very important to us so please take a minute to complete this at the end of your program.
Remember to Favourite pages for quick access under the My Program menu.
You can take Notes, see icon on top of each page, and print them off or they will be stored under My Program.
You can set goals and make plans for exercise, flare-ups, activities and relaxation in the corresponding modules and they will be emailed to you.
