Coping with pain
Changes to your health and being in pain can impact your lifestyle and quality of life. Medication may provide you a short-term relief, but there are other ways to manage your pain.
Whilst no-one can cure or eliminate pain completely, you can reduce pain and improve on areas such as; physical function, self-confidence, sense of being in control of problems, and the depression and frustration that is often felt with chronic pain through adopting self-management and coping strategies.
Understanding pain is an important step in managing your pain better:
Understanding pain:
Useful local NHS resources: