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Chronic pain due to disease, disorder or accident affects nearly a third of the population in the UK every year. With arthritis, fibromyalgia, and low back or muscle pain among the top offenders, chronic pain takes a toll in the pain itself as well as associated disability and emotional distress, lost productivity and high medical costs.
Over the last 25 years, researchers have found that pain is as individual as the people who have it, and that subjective assessments of pain do not necessarily match the degree of actual bodily damage.
At Samuel Maynard Centre our experienced clinicians within a multidisciplinary team
evaluate the individual needs of the pain sufferer through an initial rigorous assessment.
The supporting psychological treatments are aimed at coping with and reduction of
the pain including behavioural (operant or respondent approaches), cognitive-
These proven methods have shown to help to reduce pain intensity, improve emotional
and physical functioning, reduce pain-
Our psychological interventions in effective pain management are through a multidisciplinary
care teams that look at the whole "person with pain" rather than the pain itself.
They are aimed to reduce self-
Pain Management
