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 to get to what’s important to them. PMPs involve sessions with specialist pain health care staff, including Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, 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 in work and employment.

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

We also have an ethically approved Pain Management Programme Registry (REC Ref: 24/NW/0068) that tracks progress measures of patients who have consented to their PMP outcomes being stored for research purposes. We currently have data on over 7000 patients, and most of them have consented to being contacted for future research.

 

Collaborate and recruit with us!

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

 

Selected current studies

For more information on the studies below, click here. 

  • Emerging Adults, Emerging Themes: A Decade of Pain Management Programmes (PMP) with Young Adults
  • The value of exercise videos for adults living with chronic pain: patients’ perspective
  • Experience of autistic adults of pain and pain management: Barriers to effective treatment
  • Pain physiotherapists experiences of diagnosing Fibromyalgia Syndrome in NHS Pain Services
  • Biopsychosocial prediction models for pain management programmes
  • Flare-ups and chronic pelvic pain: cross-sectional questionnaire – exploring what helps mechanisms of change
  • Exploring patients' experience under specialist care for chronic non-cancer pain and opioid reduction
  • The role of empathy in interactions between healthcare professionals and people with fibromyalgia

 

Selected recent publications