Pain Concern – Transcripts

For a PDF of this transcript please click here. Date of release: 18th January 2011 How acupuncture and TENS can help relieve pain, plus, a new web service aiming to educate health professionals about pain. We take a look at the role of the pain specialist nurse in the community, eavesdropping on two

For a PDF of this transcript please click here. Date of release: 15th February 2011 Paul Evans learns to knit, and, how music can be used for pain relief. Paul Evans gets a knitting lesson when he visits the Stitchlinks group in Bath, where people use craft activities to manage their pain. Betsan Co

For a PDF of this transcript please click here. Date of release: 16th March 2011 How do culture and religion affect the way we experience and manage our pain? Dr Shilpa Patel, Dr Sue Peacock and Sir Michael Bond talk about the relationship between cultural background and pain. Also in the programme:

For a PDF of this transcript please click here. Understanding regional pain syndrome, and treating phantom limbs with mirrors. Paul Evans talks to Sunny Boshoff about her experience of complex regional pain syndrome and learns more about the causes of the condition from Dr Bill Macrae. We also hear

For a PDF of this transcript please click here. What is a pain management programme? We find out more with the patients and staff on the Glasgow programme. Airing Pain sheds some light on pain management programmes: what they are, and how they can help. Paul Evans pays a visit to the Glasgow Pain Ma

For a PDF of this transcript please click here. Date of release: 29/03/2011 What is a spinal cord stimulator and could it help you to manage your pain? Plus, complex regional pain syndrome, mirror therapy for phantom limbs, and how chronic pain affects and is affected by sleep. Paul Evans meets Edit

For a PDF of this transcript please click here. Date of release: 3rd April 2012 How a patient group is getting involved in setting health policy for chronic conditions. How can patients with chronic pain get involved with research into managing their condition? Paul Evans talks to SUCCESS (Service U

For a PDF of this transcript please click here. The challenges facing young people in caring roles and ways to support them. Friends don’t always understand, they don’t get out much and they’re faced with daunting responsibilities, but they wouldn’t change a thing about their families. So say the yo

For a PDF of this transcript please click here. From nerve-blocks to spinal cord stimulators: how interventional approaches can help. Physiotherapy, exercise, medications and clinical psychology all play an important role in pain management, but what happens if these treatments don’t give people the

For a PDF of this transcript please click here Making pain patients’ voices heard across Europe and changing the prescribing culture. Almost 100 million EU citizens have chronic pain, but there is still much progress to be made in improving diagnosis and treatment. Pain Concern’s Rowena Jacobs atten

For a PDF of this transcript please click here. Bringing mind and body together to reduce pain with self-hypnosis. In this edition of Airing Pain we hear how healthcare professionals can use hypnotic techniques to help people in pain. This is not the hypnosis of stage performances, but rather simple

For a PDF of this transcript please click here. The place of faith in pain relief, plus physiotherapy meets mental health, and educating doctors. It’s well established that pain needs to be understood and treated as a biopsychosocial problem, but what about the spiritual side of life? Professor of n

For a PDF of this transcript please click here. Patients and health professionals at a residential pain management programme in Bath talk about the pain management needs of younger people and the aims of the programme. Paul Evans visits the Centre for Pain Services at the Royal National Hospital for

For a PDF of this transcript please click here. How pain can be seen in the brain, and the research showing pain to be a condition in its own right. In this programme we feature two areas of research which are helping in the understanding of pain. Professor Karen Davis, a neuroscientist at the Unive

For a PDF of this transcript please click here. How gender can influence experiences of pain, and living with cluster headaches. We hear about orofacial pain (pain of the face and mouth) from Dr Barry Sessle, a professor in the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Toronto in Canada. Dr Sessle a

For a PDF of this transcript please click here. How pain affects the relationship between adults and young people and tips from a family therapist. In the second of our two programmes focusing on young carers for people in pain, we hear about the effect of pain on relationships between parents and c

For a PDF of this transcript please click here. The experiences of young people whose family is affected by pain and a campaign to help improve their lives. Lost childhood, financial burden, emotional turmoil and guilt – these are some of the challenges facing young people who care for people in pai

For a PDF of this transcript please click here. How to get support in regaining independence and the physical and mental health benefits of social exercise.   How can people left disabled and housebound by chronic pain be supported to live independently? Producer Paul Evans visits two Edinburgh

How shared decision making works in practice, plus, making IT work for people in pain and healthcare professionals.

For a PDF of this transcript please click here. Stiff joints and dark thoughts: treatment of pain and the person. ‘Pain medicine isn’t good at dealing with the effect of pain on the person’, says Jonathan Bannister, head of the multidisciplinary pain team at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee. Paul Evans vi

For a PDF of this transcript please click here.  Investigating the diagnoses of headaches, and the benefits of topical and placebo treatments for chronic pain.  Paul Evans meets Dr Paul Davies, a Consultant Neurologist from Northampton General Hospital, who explains that whilst most headaches are be

For a PDF of this transcript please click here. How to ensure people in pain get the best treatment: a new guideline for chronic pain in Scotland. At the launch of a new guideline on treatment of chronic pain in Scotland, Paul Evans speaks to patients and healthcare professionals about how to raise

For a PDF of this transcript please click here. Talking to representatives from a variety of pain organisations, including the Trigeminal Neuralgia Association, about the wide-reaching impact that pain has on society. Christine Johnston heads to Brussels to investigate the impact that pain has on so

For a PDF of this transcript please click here. The state of pain services in England and Wales: the National Pain Audit’s findings revealed. At the launch of the National Pain Audit at the Science Museum in London, Paul Evans talks to people who took a leading role in its development about the need

For a PDF of this transcript please click here. A look at how experts from different backgrounds work together in multidisciplinary pain teams. Presenter Paul Evans travels to Northern Ireland to meet a multidisciplinary pain team at Craigavon Area Hospital, including doctors, psychologists and phys