Topic: Pain management: pacing and goal setting

Pain management: pacing and goal setting

Chronic pain can change the way that people live their lives and carry out their daily activities. For example many people found that they could no longer perform certain tasks without experiencing increased pain and fatigue. This could lead to them becoming increasingly inactive, or catching up on jobs when they had a good day, which then lead to a flare-up of pain and the need to rest up for a few days (see also 'Coping with flare-up').



Many of the people that we talked to had learned techniques to manage their activities, minimize their pain and help prevent flare-ups. Usually these techniques had been learned on NHS Pain Management Programs through healthcare professionals, or support groups, but others had learned through the Internet or books (see also 'Learning about pain management'; 'NHS pain management programs').



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