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Pain unit

Pain unit

As pain is personal and can be difficult to talk about, the Eugène Marquis Centre can arrange for you to meet with a pain specialist.

Meeting with a pain specialist

Consultations can be arranged at the request of your doctor, accompanied by a medical letter in which your doctor:

requests a clinical assessment of your pain
suggests a personalised and adapted treatment plan
sets out steps for conducting treatment in collaboration with other health professionals

Meeting with pain nurses and follow-up

To provide an opportunity for you to discuss your pain
To discuss your care
To support you throughout your treatment
To help with treatment follow-up
To keep in contact with your home

The Eugène Marquis Centre also runs a treatment education workshop entitled

“Learning to manage your pain to improve your quality of life”, which aims to:

Increase understanding of treatments
Help patients manage their treatment
Improve quality of life for patients on opioids

Pain can be managed in a variety of ways:

Through drug therapy
Through proven non-medication-based methods

Analgesics are medicines that help relieve pain. Morphine and its derivatives are some of the most powerful and most commonly used painkillers at the Eugène Marquis Centre. Some types of pain require other medications, however.

Other approaches may be used where recommended following your medical assessment: technical approaches such as interventional radiology, radiotherapy and anaesthetic techniques; non-medication-based approaches such as transcutaneous neurostimulation, heat therapy (hot and cold), physical activity, physiotherapy, psychological support, hypnosis and osteopathic manipulative medicine.

Patient participation is always essential in managing pain, at all stages of care.

The Centre offers multidisciplinary care (involving doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, psychologists, etc.) to help patients maintain a good quality of life, manage their pain, improve their sleep and carry out adapted physical activities with little or no side effects from the analgesic treatment prescribed. SOR (Standards, Options and Recommendations 2002).

In 2011, the Eugène Marquis Centre was certified by the Regional Health Agency [Agence Régionale de Santé] as a chronic pain treatment centre specialising in cancer.
The Centre’s Pain Control Committee (CLUD) [Comité de Lutte contre la Douleur] develops and coordinates pain management throughout the establishment, working with specialists in each department.