Chronic Pain Clinic
The Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit (AEPMU) is a specialized clinic that helps people living with chronic pain. Chronic pain is defined as pain that lasts more than three months - longer than the normal time it takes for an injury to heal. Many of our patients have lived with pain for several years.
Chronic pain is a major health challenge for patients, their families, and society. Comprehensive pain management is about more than just medicine: it’s about understanding, empowering and treating the whole person. Pain can affect your mood, sleep, work, relationships and activities.
At the AEPMU, we look at how your body, mind, and daily activities and emotions interact to influence how you feel and respond to your pain. Our goal is to help you find both medical and non-medical tools, especially pain coping skills, that work for you.
We see adult patients with chronic non-cancer pain. We provide personalized, comprehensive evaluations and treatment plans. These can include:
- group programs
- injections
- intravenous infusions
- nerve blocks
- patient-led programs
- one-on-one active listening
- peer support
- pharmacotherapy
- physiotherapy
- psychotherapy
The AEPMU is designated a Centre of Expertise in Chronic Pain Management by the Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services. We serve patients in the area covered by the RUISSS McGill.
Our multidisciplinary team includes doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals who work together to find the best way to reduce pain and help patients manage and feel better.
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Our clinic is located at the Montreal General Hospital.
You need a medical referral to be seen by one of our specialists.
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