Comprehensive Pain Assessment (CPA)

Medical, Psychosocial, Functional/ Biomechanical assessments and medical follow-up. CPAs are held on Tuesday and Thursday mornings between 9 am and 12pm.

Comprehensive pain Assessments are for those patients who present with persistent pain signs / symptoms including high level of self-reported pain and disability. There is most often a complexity to the predicament following the injury and involve a combination of biomedical and psychosocial phenomena. Patients of this type present with high levels of pain an inability to return to work and low levels of activitiy and low mood/ depression. This assessment is performed by a Musculoskeletal/ Rehabilitation Physician, Clinical Psychologist and Occupational Therapist/ Physiotherapist.