Pain Management
Maximizing Life by Minimizing Pain
More than two million Canadians live with disability caused by chronic pain.
Chronic pain can be devastating. It affects all parts of a person’s life—daily activities, work, family life and sleep. It can make it difficult to think and concentrate. Anxiety and depression can result.
Toronto Rehab—Maximizing Life
At Toronto Rehab, we help people manage their chronic pain so they can continue to live a satisfying life. We maximize life.
Our Chronic Pain Service uses a self-management approach together with group programs to help people develop strategies that work for them. Our programs include:
Leading the Way in Improving Pain Management
Pain is also the single most common symptom among people receiving rehabilitation, even for people who don’t suffer chronic pain.
Good pain management is important. It not only reduces discomfort, it increases function, lets people participate more fully in their rehabilitation and speeds their recovery.
Toronto Rehab is a Canadian leader in improving how pain is managed in the rehabilitation setting.
We’ve developed new pain management guidelines using the latest research evidence. The guidelines are interprofessional. That means that improved pain management is incorporated into all aspects of care. Every professional involved in care is involved in assessing, monitoring and managing pain.
Integrating Research with Care
At Toronto Rehab, we integrate the latest research into all the care we provide. In fact our researchers work side by side with the health care team. Our patients participate in research and benefit from discoveries—as we make them. We’re also sharing our innovations with rehabilitation providers across the country and around the world.