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. These may include the exploration of psychological treatment approaches, specialist physiotherapy for pain, and the benefits of occupational therapy, such as supporting 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 7,000 patients, and most of them have consented to being contacted for future research.

Collaborate with us

If you're 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 the project type. This also includes discounted rates for students.

Take a look at our research

We believe that sharing our knowledge is important. We publish our research in scientific journals, and try to reach more people by presenting our research through conferences and workshops. Please take a look at a selection of our recent studies, publications and presentations below.