Program Goals
The goals of the program at the Centre for Pain and Disability Management are:
- to improve physical and emotional well-being
- to increase your understanding of chronic pain and medical issues
- to help you self-manage your pain
- to reducing reliance on medications for pain management
- to show you a variety of effective, useable pain management strategies
- to improve body mechanics to keep physical stresses to a minimum
- to improve your day-to-day functioning
- to reduce disability and increase control of pain
- to provide an opportunitiy for family or close friends to participate in your rehabilitation