Regional Groups

The idea of our association is to make the opportunity to join us as easy as possible for the pain patients and as well as their relatives. To make this idea come true, every district has a possibility to start up an independent area section (or several in case of bigger towns). Every group has their own co-ordinator who can organize happenings like rummage sales, lectures, presentations and most importantly peer groups for pain patients. The main thing is to follow association's principles; together with home, work, environment and health care.

During the strong growth of members the amount of district sections has grown rapidly. We need more and more active people to join us and we need supporters for people suffering chronic pain. Activeness and visibility locally as well as nationally is a good way to reach the goal; bring more awareness of the chronic pain patient's issue and get the official illness status for chronic pain.

From the page Aluejaostot (sorry, only Finnish) you can find the places where the district sections are working.