‘Self-management’ doesn’t mean being abandoned to ‘get on with it’ alone. Support can come from healthcare professionals, family, friends, voluntary organisations or support groups.
If pain is having a big impact, pain management programmes can help people to get their lives back on track. This involves focusing on what’s most important in life – this could be relationships, activities, work – and learning how to be more involved in them without flaring-up the pain.
Top tip: control the pain by finding your baseline. That’s a level of activity you know you can do without flaring-up the pain. From there you can build up slowly.
Find out more: listen to participants and healthcare professionals on the Glasgow Pain Management Programme sharing their experiences on our Airing Pain radio programme.
Please click here to read the transcript of this programme.
Published September 2015. Text to be reviewed September 2018.
