Pain Treatments Guide

Find the best pain treatment for your needs, and skip everything that doesn’t work with this guide.

There are many different options for pain treatment, and understanding what might be best for you can be a minefield.

It’s all too easy to spend time and money on something which doesn’t help, or to end up in a cycle of dependency, where you are stuck paying for the same service forever.

Even working out what treatments can be effective and what are just backed by hype, cherry picked evidence and wishes can be hard work.

This guide breaks down the 20 most widely used treatments for pain so that you can understand what they are, whether they are effective, and what they might best be used for.

If there is anything not in this guide there are probably one of two reasons:

  • It is as yet relatively untested, so it is hard to say how effective it is

  • It is made up nonsense

Unfortunately there is a lot of the latter, so please be careful out there.

If anyone is making claims that seem too good to be true, that contradict everything any qualified health professional that has had a good look at you has said, it’s probably not real.