About this service
Most people tell us that living with chronic pain can have a major impact upon their everyday lives. Long-lasting pain is very difficult to live with, and can affect many different aspects of people’s lives, for example personal relationships, activity levels, work-status. It can also result in a reduced quality of life and emotional distress, such as anxiety, low mood and depression.
Our clinical psychologists work in partnership with healthcare professionals from Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Hospital to provide a comprehensive Chronic Pain Management Service. Alongside medication, and sometimes injections, our aim through working together is to help you learn to cope better with the pain you experience, to support you in managing your pain/condition and to increase your overall quality of life.
The role of clinical psychology is to help you cope with the negative emotions associated with chronic pain, such as anxiety, depression, guilt, fear-avoidance, etc, and to assess and work on how these are affecting you within your everyday life. A psychological approach does not aim to cure pain, but rather to help understand and cope with the difficult emotions associated with it, and the impact of these emotions on the overall pain experience.
Being referred to clinical psychology does not mean that we think your pain is ‘all in the mind’, rather that we recognise that living with chronic pain often has far-reaching emotional consequences. Talking with someone about how you are thinking and feeling about your pain is often the first step to identifying how your emotions affect you and your overall pain experience.
Most people tell us that living with chronic pain can have a major impact upon their everyday lives. Long-lasting pain is very difficult to live with, and can affect many different aspects of people’s lives, for example personal relationships, activity levels, work-status. It can also result in a reduced quality of life and emotional distress, such as anxiety, low mood and depression.
Our clinical psychologists work in partnership with healthcare professionals from Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Hospital to provide a comprehensive Chronic Pain Management Service. Alongside medication, and sometimes injections, our aim through working together is to help you learn to cope better with the pain you experience, to support you in managing your pain/condition and to increase your overall quality of life.
The role of clinical psychology is to help you cope with the negative emotions associated with chronic pain, such as anxiety, depression, guilt, fear-avoidance, etc, and to assess and work on how these are affecting you within your everyday life. A psychological approach does not aim to cure pain, but rather to help understand and cope with the difficult emotions associated with it, and the impact of these emotions on the overall pain experience.
Being referred to clinical psychology does not mean that we think your pain is ‘all in the mind’, rather that we recognise that living with chronic pain often has far-reaching emotional consequences. Talking with someone about how you are thinking and feeling about your pain is often the first step to identifying how your emotions affect you and your overall pain experience.