Coping involves a conscious effort to solve a problem in order to master, minimize or reduce its impact. Coping strategies can help individuals with chronic pain deal with their pain on a daily basis. However, they should not be confused with treatments. Coping skills aid in pain management...

Pain pumps have been used by people attempting to treat or manage pain. It distributes medicine directly to the spinal fluid surrounding the spinal cord. With the use of pain pumps, often a lower dose of medicine is required. This lower dose decreases the potency of the side-effects caused by the...