UPMC Pain Medicine and its UPMC partners offer useful information, links, forms, podcasts, and choices for patients and health care professionals to use when self-managing persistent pain.
Your personalized pain treatment plan may incorporate a variety of different pain resource tools, some of which are described below.
For information about each of these tools, take a look at the Pain Resources Toolkit
Pain can be caused by many things, such as an injury, a surgery, or a health problem like low back pain or cancer. Long-term pain that isn’t controlled can make it harder for you to enjoy life. There are ways you can learn to manage your pain so you can return to work, engage in activities you love, sleep better, improve your relationships with those you love, and experience life more fully.
The UPMC Health Library offers valuable information on managing pain such as:
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) also has helpful articles about medications and medication management.
UPMC Center for Integrative Medicine offers body work therapies
Visit the UPMC Center for Integrative Medicine to learn more about:
Your health information, right at your fingertips. Select MyUPMC to access your UPMC health information. For patients of UPMC-affiliated doctors in Central Pa, select UPMC Central Pa Portal. Patients of UPMC Cole should select the UPMC Cole Connect Patient Portal.
The portal for all UPMC patients EXCEPT those in Central Pa.
The portal for UPMC patients in Central Pa.
The portal for UPMC Cole patients receiving inpatient care.
