Mercy Pain Management
What we can do to help you at the Mercy Pain Management Service.
A visit to the Mercy Pain Management Service consists of a thorough assessment of your pain problem and how it impacts on your life.
What is pain?
- Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience.
- Chronic pain is, “pain that persists after the injury has healed”.
- Chronic pain is sometimes called the “silent epidemic”, affecting at least twenty percent of Australians.
- Chronic pain is in part due to a “malfunction” of the body’s injury alarm system. In some people the “alarm bell keeps on ringing” even though the “emergency” (such as a back strain) is over and the injury has healed.
- Chronic pain will often affect your mood, work, relationships and quality of life. To manage pain successfully, all aspects of your “pain experience” must be addressed.The chronic pain experience is often very frustrating lots of doctors, physiotherapists, scans and procedures and not much joy! This is in part due to the “complexity” of the pain.
Pain Management
- It may not always be possible to cure your pain. Although procedures play a valuable role in pain management more often than not a “magic” needle, operation or drug to cure pain is not available.
- Pain management may mean helping you to live with your pain to improve your quality of life. Although this sounds difficult it is certainly possible!
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