Pain Management Who we are

Pain has an impact on many areas of life including how you move, what you do, your finances, your mood and sleep, your relationships, and your thought processes.

These areas of life also have an impact on how people manage their pain. This is why the pain management service has different specialists working together to look at the impact of your pain.

Psychologists

Pain can have a significant effect on the way you think, feel, connect to others, and sleep. It can affect your self-esteem and confidence, and make you feel stuck.

Some patients worry that psychologists might think pain is “all in the mind.” We know that your pain is real, the longer pain goes on, the more areas of your life it can affect.

Our priority as psychologists is to help you:

Understand the impact of your pain.
Make meaningful changes to manage pain.
Improve your quality of life.

Psychologists

Hazel O’Dowd (Head of Department)
Julia Cordey
Kelly Paull
Lindsey Hume
Nicholas Ambler
Oonagh Koppel
Sebastian Eisenberg
Vicky Williams

Physiotherapists

We specialise in supporting people with long term, persistent pain. We may work differently to physiotherapists you have worked with before. Pain can make it harder to move, and over time this may make the pain worse.

As pain management physiotherapists, we focus on the whole person looking at ways to improvement and activity based on your goals. By helping people get stronger and manage their symptoms, this can help lower stress and give you more control of your life.

Physiotherapists

Crispin Barker
Hazel Stevens
Irene Campagnolo Maschio
Melanie Berry

Occupational therapists

Occupational therapy helps you do the things you need and want to, at home or anywhere else.
An occupation is any activity you do to take care of yourself like washing or eating, to be productive like working or studying, or fun like hobbies and socialising. Occupations give life purpose and connect us to others.
When pain makes it hard to do these things, occupational therapy can help you adjust to have the best quality of life.

Occupational therapists

Caroline King
Leanne Nabosi

Patient volunteers

We are lucky to have help from past patients who know what it is like to live with pain. They help in many ways:

Volunteers help run our self-management programmes with one of the team. They also give advice and support to new patients, and share their experiences.
Volunteers join meetings to help plan our future services, review our paperwork, and help with how we run our groups.