Pain Management Programmes 

The Walton Centre runs several types of Pain Management Programmes (PMP). PMPs aim to support quality of life for those living with chronic pain by helping them develop coping strategies that enable them work towards their valued goals. PMPs involve sessions with occupational therapists, physiotherapist, clinical psychologists and pain consultants. This ‘multidisciplinary’ approach ensures that PMP treatment can focus on the wider impact of pain including how it affects physical activity, work, emotional wellbeing, relationships and confidence as well as chronic pain understanding.

 

Research activity at the PMP

The Pain Research Institute works with the PMP Department at The Walton Centre to ensure that we continually research PMPs to help make them as effective as possible. 

The multidisciplinary PMP team also contribute to the Pain Research Institute by continuing to set up and collaborate on varied research topics. This may include exploring psychological treatment approaches, specialist pain physiotherapy for pain and the benefits of occupational therapy for example how to best support patients vocationally.

The PMP has a dedicated Research Committee that facilitates research projects. Our team is linked to universities across the UK and more globally through collaboration and supervision of student projects.  

We also have an ethically approved Pain Management Programme Registry (REC Ref: 19/NW/0130) that tracks outcome measures of patients who have consented to their PMP outcomes being stored for research purposes. We currently have data on over 6000 patients as well as registering those patients who consent to being contacted for future research.

 

Collaborate and Recruit with us!

If you are interested in collaborating with our PMP department or accessing the Pain Management Programme Registry for data or recruitment, please email us on wcft.pmpresearch@nhs.net. Please be aware that registry access incurs a fee that is depended on project type. This also includes discounted rates for students.

 

Current studies

  • Taking Cannabidiol (CBD) to manage chronic pain (Read more)
  • Patient's experience of attending online PMP during the COVID-19 pandemic (Read more)
  • Therapy outcomes for complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) (Read more)
  • The relationship between of self-compassion, and illness perceptions and in anxiety and depression in an adult chronic pain population.
  • Pain management in the digital age; do remotely delivered interventions affect outcomes in chronic pain?
  • Biopsychosocial prediction models for pain management programme.
  • Perspective of patients with chronic pain in evaluation of the value of exercise videos.