Pain Management FAQs

If you have a goal to review your medication, this will need to be with your GP or pharmacist. We do not prescribe medications in pain management, however we can help advise you how to make a plan towards achieving your medication goals. 

We know pain impacts on many areas of life and often people must adapt to changes in their circumstances. Living with pain has many challenges and pain psychology supports people to re-build their lives and adapt to change, develop coping strategies, and support their emotional wellbeing. 

Pain management focusses on the strategies you can put in place to minimise the impact pain has on daily life. We do not offer medical investigations and for most people medical investigations have been completed. If you are concerned in relation to medical problems, it would be advisable to discuss this with your GP.

Chronic / persistent pain is a very common problem. Pain is complicated and often there are many automatic systems involved in long term pain. It is recognised as a long-term condition and is very real. 

Physiotherapists in pain management look at all the factors impacting on function and pain levels. It is important to develop functional abilities and activity, whilst improving the control of pain. The physiotherapist will work with you to find a successful level of activity that can then improve over time. This may be a different approach to previous experiences.

We will tailor the support that you receive in the pain management service to you, so everyone’s route through will be slightly different. It might be that when you come to the end of the work that you do with us you might be signposted elsewhere. Or it might be that you take some time to put the strategies that you have learned into practice for yourself.