Pete Moore

Patient Advocate

Pete Moore Biography
Pete’s story is very typical of that of a pain patient. He was, like many pain patients looking for that magic bullet to take away his pain. Managing pain was like playing a game of snakes and ladders – a game of luck. Most days melted into the next and he became a very poor pain self-manager. He did not exercise or generally look after his body and when something went wrong with it, he expected the doctor to fix him.

My Turning Point!
In July 1996 Pete attended the INPUT Pain Management Programme (PMP) London. It was described to him as a programme that could help me to increase his confidence and mobility and provide him with life-long skills to self-manage his pain. Since 1997 he has not had the need to take any pain medication.

Pain Toolkit www.paintoolkit.org
Pete authored the Pain Toolkit in 2001 which a simple patient interactive booklet, which healthcare professionals use to start off the pain self-management conversion with their patients
It was supported by the Department of Health and now used extensively in the UK and overseas. 950,000 copies are in circulation in the UK. It’s been translated into 18 different languages and adapted for Worldwide use in English speaking countries. There are also audio versions.

Other information:
Pete runs interactive online Pain Toolkit Workshops for both people with persistent pain and healthcare professionals who support them.

• I run several Pain Toolkits workshops for medical students at various Universities here in the UK & Ireland. I also teach at the Austrian Pain School.
• I work at Teesside University as consultant on the VR4Rhab and other Virtual Reality and AI projects.

Memberships
• British Pain Society (honorary member)
• The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)