Enabling Self-management and Coping
with Arthritic Pain using Exercise

ESCAPE-pain is a rehabilitation programme for people with chronic joint pain, that integrates educational self-management and coping strategies with an exercise regimen individualised for each participant. It helps people understand their condition, teaches them simple things they can help themselves with, and takes them through a progressive exercise programme so they learn how to cope with pain better. 

Robust evaluation shows that ESCAPE-pain:

• Reduces pain
• Improves physical function
• Improves the psychosocial consequences of pain
• Reduces healthcare and utilisation costs.

Contact us by email at hello@escape-pain.org for more information. 

News

• The ESCAPE-pain Facilitator Training Programme has won the 'Specialist Training Programme of the Year' award at the recent Active Training Awards & Conference 2018 held in Birmingham earlier in November. We are honoured to be recognised by our partners in this sector. Read more here. 

• Our congratulations to the Physiotherapy team at South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust who were winners at their local Trust's 'Excellence 2018' awards held on Tuesday 13 November 2018. They received the 'Excellence in Improving Health' award for their delivery of the ESCAPE-pain programme. 

• Physiotherapy colleagues from South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust share their experiences of the ESCAPE-pain programme, how it benefits people with chronic joint pain and encourages them to self-manage their condition. Watch the video here.

• Pioneering NHS sites improving patient outcomes through innovation commended by Health Secretary, Matt Hancock MP. ESCAPE-pain has been included as a case study in the recent NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) report 'Understanding how and why the NHS adopts innovation' 

• ESCAPE-pain programme spreads to 100 sites across the UK - see our site map for your nearest class

ESCAPE-PAIN app

Available for iOS and Android