Comprehensive Pain Assessment (CPA)

Comprehensive Pain Assessments are for those patients who present with persistent pain signs and symptoms including high level of self-reported pain and disability. There is most often a complexity to the client’s predicament following the injury which may involve a combination of biomedical and psychosocial phenomena. Patients of this type may present with high levels of pain and an inability to return to work. This is often accompanied by low levels of activitiy and low mood or depression. This assessment is performed by a Musculoskeletal or Rehabilitation Physician, Clinical Psychologist and Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist.  CPAs are held on Tuesday and Thursday mornings between 9 am and 12pm. CPA assessments inform the CPA report which includes an integrated clinical formulation and multi-disciplinary pain managment recommendations.