The Empowered Pain Patient

by Kim Kristiansen

Living with ongoing pain is much more than living with the pain. It is a daily challenge to sleep, mood, tiredness, and much more.

A challenge to the quality of life.

In The Empowered Pain Patient” primary care physician and pain researcher Kim Kristiansen, M.D. provides knowledge and strategies to individualized ongoing customized pain management, and enhanced shared decision making. Pain management based on individualized information about pain and quality of life.



The pain is validated and acknowledged as is the pain’s influence on the persons life. Information and understanding of pain mechanisms relates to the individual experience.

The person, active in pain management, works with the health care professional(s) to set treatment goals and to evaluate and adjust the effects of treatment.

Pain is the most frequent presented symptom in healthcare, and more than 100 million people in both USA and Europe living with pain every day. Pain management must be based on shared understanding and shared decisions between the patient and the healthcare professionals together.

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An excellent book which will be useful to patients living with pain, also to doctors and healthcare professionals. Peter Moore, co-author of The Pain-Toolkit

Validated Pain Management
In Validated Pain Management knowledge about pain mechanisms is linked to the individual patient’s actual experience and situation, clear to see and understand by both the patient and the healthcare professional(s). Together. This also acknowledges and validates the patient’s pain and its impact on the quality of life.

Based on this can treatment options be discussed, chosen, and evaluated still based on shared understanding of the actual individual experience and available medical knowledge. Pain management is an ongoing process, and it must be comprehensive and involve more than the pain alone. In Validated Pain Management this is easy to do using the developed and scientifically validated tool.


Discover: The Empowered Pain Patient:
Part 1: Pain and Chronic Pain. Defining and understanding pain and how pain is experienced. How processes can go wrong and the pain not just continue but be amplified.

Part 2: How to measure pain and its impact on quality of life

Part 3: Presenting and describing Validated Pain Management including “The 7 Elements of Validated Pain Management”, describing easy to follow steps to take, and patient stories. Including how to reduce risk of medicine misuse or addiction.

Part 4: The Roles: Describing the role of the person living with the pain, the role of the relative or loved one, the role of the healthcare professional, and the role of the healthcare system

Part 5: How to individualize evidence-based medicine to become an empowered patient

Genres: Disability, Health, Nonfiction

152 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 29, 2013

About the author

Kim Kristiansen is born in Aarhus in Denmark, and graduated from Medical School at Aarhus University in 1985. Since 1992 Primary Care Physician in Grindsted, Denmark.
Pain Blogger at "Picture of Pain Blog"
Founder and Managing Director at EvidenceProfile, ApS, Denmark
Harvard Medical School edu in pain management. Pain researcher. Presenter at scientific congresses and educational activities.
Inventor of the scientifically validated pain- and Quality of Life assessment tool DoloTest® developed together with two colleagues.
DoloTest® is created to empower patients in the pain management process, and to help patient autonomy, as well as a quality and research assessment tool.
Examinator at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of Copenhagen .
Impassionated runner, has completed 25 marathons