Pain management programme

What does the pain management programme involve? Our group pain management program takes place over several weeks, with patients expected to attend on two days a week. The programme includes input from different members of our team, including physiotherapy, psychology, occupational therapy and pharmacy. 

It covers a range of useful topics that have been shown by research to be effective for helping people manage persistent pain including:   

• Understanding the physiology of pain. 

• Things that can influence pain. 

• Sleep and pain. 

• How pain changes our relationship with thoughts. 

• The benefits of activity. 

and much more. 

You and a clinician from the team can decide if this is the right treatment option for you at this time. Like all aspects of our self-management service, this involves taking an active approach, being open and working towards lifestyle changes that we know benefit pain management.  

If you are nervous about attending groups, please be assured that everyone in the room will feel nervous. We know from research that people living with pain get more out of a group intervention than they do from individual sessions.