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Chronic Pain in Edmonton
Chronic pain touches everything: your mood, sleep, movement and daily comfort. At Solis Medical Clinic in Edmonton, we take time to understand your story and what you are going through. With careful, evidence-based care, we help you manage your pain, rebuild confidence and get back to the life you want.
Why Choose Solis for Chronic Pain Care?
Integrated Care
Multiple treatments in one place for pain and wellness support.
Advanced Treatments
Modern therapies designed to support comfort, mobility and recovery.
Patient Focused
Personalized care focused on long term relief and well being.
Understanding chronic pain
Chronic pain is pain that lasts or keeps coming back for more than three months. Pain is usually a symptom, so your doctor works to find what is causing it when that is possible.
The World Health Organization now lists chronic pain as a diagnosis of its own in the ICD-11. It splits this into chronic primary pain and chronic secondary pain. Chronic primary pain is pain that stays after tissue has healed, or pain with no clear cause. Chronic secondary pain happens alongside another condition, such as rheumatoid arthritis.
What influences chronic pain
Biological, psychological, spiritual, environmental and social factors all shape how we feel pain. Like other long-term conditions, chronic pain is best understood in a biopsychosocial way.
Good care brings together medication, physical therapy, psychological support, spiritual care and self-management, matched to what you need. The pain clinic in Edmonton page sets out the six pillars we use to guide treatment.
Your chronic pain assessment
A chronic pain assessment is a full look at your pain history, how it affects daily life, and a physical exam. This visit can take an hour or more. It covers a detailed medical history (when the pain started, how it feels, where it is and how strong it is), how pain affects your daily function and mood, and a physical exam to match the history.
Please come in 15 to 20 minutes early to fill out forms, including some pain assessment tools. You will meet our nurse first, then the pain specialist.
What we ask during your consultation
The questions cover more than where it hurts. What you have already tried, and how your body responded, shapes what is worth trying next.
- Your past medical history, including mental health history and any past emotional trauma
- Your current medications and any over-the-counter supplements
- How you responded to past medications and other treatments
A pain assessment has two main goals
The first is to understand the nature of the pain problem and the factors around it.
The second is to set a baseline against which the effect of treatments can be measured. This aspect is often more difficult than for many medical problems, where outcomes are simpler to recognise.
For pain problems, improvement in 'pain' may, paradoxically, not be the main endpoint, but improving how the pain is understood and managed may be the essential outcomes. This means we try to help you function better despite having chronic pain.
Reading about how pain works can help with this. Our chronic pain reading list has books you can borrow from the clinic library for two weeks.
Visit the West Edmonton clinic
You will find us at 16534 118 Ave NW, off 118 Avenue in West Edmonton. Patients visit us from Edmonton and the surrounding areas. Confirm access details when booking.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need a referral for a chronic pain assessment?
Solis currently accepts direct bookings. Bring any referral notes, imaging reports and your medication list so the clinician can see the work done so far.
Will I get an injection at the first visit?
That depends on the assessment and whether an injection is appropriate and available that day. The first goal is to identify a sensible treatment plan. See the pain clinic in Edmonton page for the treatments offered here.
When should I seek urgent care instead?
Seek urgent medical help for new weakness, loss of bladder or bowel control, chest pain, trouble breathing, a major injury, or fever with severe pain. A scheduled visit is not a substitute for emergency care.