UVSD SchmerzLOS

President: Heike Norda

Vice President: Hartmut Wahl

Member: Dr. Nicolas Jakobs

Other: Representative of the steering committee: Prof. Dr. Britta Lambers

• 04.02.2011 Foundation of SchmerzLOS e.V.
• 2011 Start of project “Move against pain”
• 2012 First political campaign to increase awareness for chronic pain at federal ministry and parliament
• 2013 Roll out of the program “Found and support self-help groups”
• From now on yearly participation in:
  • the national day of chronic pain
  • the panel of the German Pain Association
  • the German Congress of Pain
• 2014 First contribution to a S3 medical guideline for the application of opiods
  Representation of interest in the parliamentary society in regards to the topic “Pain and Demencia”
• 2015 From now on quarterly publication of the own journal “SchmerzLOS Aktuell”
• From now on yearly participation at the European Meeting of SIP (Societal Impact of Pain)
• From now on several invited presentations from health care institutions
• 2016 Becoming a corresponding member of the German Pain Association
  Participation in a working group of the German Pain Association for “Patient information”
• Frequently publications together with other health care stakeholders
• Participation at several science projects
• From now on organization of yearly workshops for all the leaders of self-help groups SchmerzLOS
• 2017 30 established self-help groups since year of foundation
• By now distribution of 5000 copies of the journal SchmerzLOS Aktuell at over 100 destinations

• Consulting of patients and their relatives in self-management and support health literacy
• Increase awareness of chronic pain in the society and political community
• Development of self-help activities, i.e. foundation of self-helping groups
• Support activities to prevent chronic pain
• Representation of interests of patients on political and societal level
• Support of scientific projects

• European Platform for all national organizations;
• Consolidate news of the scientific pain world;
• Enable information exchange and cooperations between the members;
• Increase awareness for chronic pain to all stakeholders especially on European level