OUR PROGRAMME
Striving for change!
Our in-depth treatment sessions offer the patient that comfort and understanding that is sometimes overlooked by the doctor. All treatment sessions are individually tailored to the needs of the patient. The patient normally sees the same therapist in order to develop a rapport which is essential for the patient to build confidence. The patient fills in a pain dairy throughout the week and that is shortly discussed along with how they have been feeling over the course of the week and more importantly, at the present time for treatment. The treatment possibilities are then discussed along with their short and long term goals, which we normally ask the patient to give them an incentive and make them strive for change.
The impact of chronic pain on the individual, family members and friends is great. Of those suffering pain
25 % are unemployed because of pain. Of those employed the majority of them are forced to take more than 15 days off due to pain. In addition, one-in-five chronic pain sufferers have been diagnosed with depression as a result of their pain. This has a snowball effect which can also lead to social isolation.
Our main beneficiaries will be chronic pain sufferers in the local community. Because of the wide ranging problems chronic pain can cause we do not have a target age group but we would envisage the majority being in the 35 – 65 age group. Our programme however does not discriminate through age.
Sufferers are identified and referred by GPs so that we can target the neediest, who will gain maximum benefit.
The programme is delivered within a therapy, health and wellness facility in South Lanarkshire. They have a full IFI accredited rehabilitation studio offering the latest equipment to assist the overall benefit of our programme. On-site they have individual therapy suites to deliver the therapies needed to benefit the participants. The facility has full disabled access and is commutable by public transport offering door stop access for participants with no personal transport.
Patients are assessed by our on-site therapists and designated to a key worker throughout the course of their program. Initial assessment involves exchange of personal details with a general discussion about the possible benefits that they can receive. By not going into too much detail on the first appointment, we feel that we are not overloading the patient with too much information that they may forget in a matter of hours.
We thrive on a friendly environment and try to ascertain this kind of relationship with our patients throughout. This has been shown to improve the likelihood of patients discussing the true impact of their pain that they would not have otherwise discussed with their family or carers.
We subjectively and objectively assess the client’s symptoms in order to construct a care plan that will not aggravate the pain further. The objective measures includes palpation, range of movement, neurological testing (dermatonal & myotonal).
Goal setting plays a big part in our treatment program and we find that it gives extra motivation to patients during treatments. We like to focus on functional tasks that can help the patient in their activities of daily living instead of focusing treatments on a task that is irrelevant. The positivity of achieving their desired goal could be transferred into positive thoughts regarding their chronic pain and how they manage it.
We use the Mc Caffrey Initial pain assessment and Oswestry Disability Questionnaire to gain objective measures from the clients regarding the impact that the pain has on their activities of daily living. These questionnaires are asked at the initial assessment and again at the final assessment to see if the client has benefited from the chronic pain program.
We then plan our treatment sessions based on their long term and short term goals that they have set themselves. Treatment options are devised and assessed on a regular basis to achieve maximum benefits and minimal negative side effects.
Our in-depth treatment sessions offer the patient that comfort and understanding that is sometimes overlooked by the doctor. All treatment sessions are individually tailored to the needs of the patient. The patient normally sees the same therapist in order to develop a rapport which is essential for the patient to build confidence. The patient fills in a pain dairy throughout the week and that is shortly discussed along with how they have been feeling over the course of the week and more importantly, at the present time for treatment. The treatment possibilities are then discussed along with their short and long term goals, which we normally ask the patient to give them an incentive and make them strive for change.
The impact of chronic pain on the individual, family members and friends is great. Of those suffering pain
25 % are unemployed because of pain. Of those employed the majority of them are forced to take more than 15 days off due to pain. In addition, one-in-five chronic pain sufferers have been diagnosed with depression as a result of their pain. This has a snowball effect which can also lead to social isolation.
Our main beneficiaries will be chronic pain sufferers in the local community. Because of the wide ranging problems chronic pain can cause we do not have a target age group but we would envisage the majority being in the 35 – 65 age group. Our programme however does not discriminate through age.
Sufferers are identified and referred by GPs so that we can target the neediest, who will gain maximum benefit.
The programme is delivered within a therapy, health and wellness facility in South Lanarkshire. They have a full IFI accredited rehabilitation studio offering the latest equipment to assist the overall benefit of our programme. On-site they have individual therapy suites to deliver the therapies needed to benefit the participants. The facility has full disabled access and is commutable by public transport offering door stop access for participants with no personal transport.
Patients are assessed by our on-site therapists and designated to a key worker throughout the course of their program. Initial assessment involves exchange of personal details with a general discussion about the possible benefits that they can receive. By not going into too much detail on the first appointment, we feel that we are not overloading the patient with too much information that they may forget in a matter of hours.
We thrive on a friendly environment and try to ascertain this kind of relationship with our patients throughout. This has been shown to improve the likelihood of patients discussing the true impact of their pain that they would not have otherwise discussed with their family or carers.
We subjectively and objectively assess the client’s symptoms in order to construct a care plan that will not aggravate the pain further. The objective measures includes palpation, range of movement, neurological testing (dermatonal & myotonal).
Goal setting plays a big part in our treatment program and we find that it gives extra motivation to patients during treatments. We like to focus on functional tasks that can help the patient in their activities of daily living instead of focusing treatments on a task that is irrelevant. The positivity of achieving their desired goal could be transferred into positive thoughts regarding their chronic pain and how they manage it.
We use the Mc Caffrey Initial pain assessment and Oswestry Disability Questionnaire to gain objective measures from the clients regarding the impact that the pain has on their activities of daily living. These questionnaires are asked at the initial assessment and again at the final assessment to see if the client has benefited from the chronic pain program.
We then plan our treatment sessions based on their long term and short term goals that they have set themselves. Treatment options are devised and assessed on a regular basis to achieve maximum benefits and minimal negative side effects.
