Please find information about the procedures below on the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists website.
- Epidural Steroid Injection
- Facet Joint Rhizolysis/Radio Frequency Lesioning (Denervation)
- Facet Joint Medial Branch Blocks
- Pain injection treatments
- Peripheral Nerve Injections
- Sacroiliac Joint Injection
When people self-manage their pain, their quality of life improves. Eventually it stops dominating their day and they begin to get more out of life. Knowing how to manage your pain is not automatic – but it is something that you can learn.
The UHMBT Chronic Pain Team offer a service to try and facilitate this learning. The team have developed a couple of patient centered courses to allow you to see what self-management is and how you can learn to apply it to your lives.
Pain-Management Program (PMP) - this is a group-based course, designed to allow you to interact with other chronic pain sufferers whilst learning self-management.
- 1 drop-in session + 4 training sessions over 5 weeks (sessions 3 ½ hrs long)
- Group meeting at either Kendal Leisure Centre or Queen Victoria hospital, Morecambe
Self-Management Program (SMP) - this is a 1:1 session with a trained nurse, usually based over a video-link... but we will always try to fit in with your communication preferences.
- 7 training sessions over 7 weeks (sessions 1hr long)
- 1:1 meeting with Chronic Pain Nurse Specialist via Video link or telephone (Face to Face can be accommodated in special circumstances)