Sydney: Fourteen year old Lauren Cooper was cut off from friends and school by chronic pain until a new website taught her ways to manage the agony that drugs could not.
The Sydney teenager has battled against cystic fibrosis from birth but 18 months ago complications of the disease began to cause excruciating pain in her abdomen.
A new website by NSW Health Department’s ACI pain management network
featuring video of pain specialists and other teenagers has helped Lauren to find new ways of coping with the pain that won’t go away.
The website contains tutorials that teach young people regarding exercise, diet, relaxation, imagery, mindfulness and positive thinking which can help manage pain.

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