Pain management

Managing pain is important to facilitate walking (which maintains calf muscle pump function) and compression therapy, and to improve the patient's wellbeing.

Create an individual pain management plan; see Ulcer and wound pain.

Ulcer pain often improves with a reduction in limb oedema and wound exudate. For management of oedema, see Oedema and ulcer and wound healing. For exudate management, see Ulcer or wound moisture balance.