Arthritis
Bone and Joint Week 2022
October 12 , 2022
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This week, from Wednesday 12th October - Thursday 20th October is official Bone and Joint Week 2022. In order to raise awareness of bone and joint conditions, Pain Concern have worked with ARMA (Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance) to deliver informative content throughout this week.
To take a ...
Airing Pain 132: When Children Have Arthritis
May 03 , 2022
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How do you identify illness in young children and coping as a family.
This Airing Pain was recorded at the Scottish Network for Arthritis in Children SNAC’s 2022 Family Weekend at Crieff Hydro, which brings together families recently affected by juvenile idiopathic arthritis and some of the country’s leading ...
Airing Pain 119: Experts by Experience: Working together in pain management programmes
November 05 , 2019
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Patient volunteers and healthcare professionals on working together in pain management programmes
This edition of Airing Pain has been supported by a grant from the Plum Trust.
In September, the British Pain Society’s special interest group on pain management programmes held their annual conference. A workshop entitled ‘Experts by ...
IASP Global Year against Pain in the Most Vulnerable
September 11 , 2019
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The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) has made 2019 their ‘Global Year against Pain in the Most Vulnerable’. The groups included in IASP’s Global Year against Pain in the Most Vulnerable are: older persons (including pain in dementia), infants and young children, individuals with ...
Airing Pain 122: The Many Faces of Research & Fibromyalgia
May 05 , 2020
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Visiting the forefront of research into pain conditions
This edition of Airing Pain has been supported with a grant from The Mirianog Trust donated for this purpose. It was recorded at the end of April 2020, the second month of the UK’s Covid-19 lockdown. All interviews were recorded prior ...
Airing Pain 109: Fibromyalgia
January 07 , 2019
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Fibromyalgia management’s revised recommendations, walking as self-management, and one person’s journey with living with FM
This edition has been supported by the Women’s Fund of Scotland.
Fibromyalgia (FM) affects around 2% of the UK population, with 80-90% of those being women, and being a widely misunderstood condition its exact ...
Treatment with opioids not superior to treatment with non-opioid medications – Study
March 07 , 2018
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A study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that treatment with opioids was not superior to treatment with non-opioid medications in patients with chronic back pain, hip or knee osteoarthritis pain.
You can find the full study here: http://ow.ly/veOf30iO8ms ...
Airing Pain 99: Transition Services for Adolescents with Chronic Pain
February 12 , 2018
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Exploring the challenges and successes that patients, parents and healthcare professionals encounter when pain in adolescents
This edition was funded by a grant by the Agnes Hunter Trust.
Going through adolescence can be a difficult process for anyone, but for young adults with chronic pain the difficulties of these ...
Airing Pain 93: Easy Being Green
August 07 , 2017
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AP al fresco! The benefits of gardening for our physical and mental health, plus why, when it comes to green space, size isn’t everything…
This programme was funded by a grant from The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust.
Getting some gentle exercise tops the NHS’ list of ten self-help tips ...
Airing Pain 91: Not an Old Man’s Disease
June 07 , 2017
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We talk to campaigners, MPs, patients and specialists about the most common form of inflammatory arthritis: gout
This programme was funded by a grant from The Schuh Trust.
Gout is the most common form of inflammatory arthritis and affects 1 in 40 people in the UK. So why do ...
Push Parliament to recognise burden of pain
September 12 , 2016
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An Early Day Motion on Chronic Pain (Number 195) has been posted in the House of Commons and currently has the signatures of over 50 MPs.
The Motion urges MPs to recognise the burden chronic pain places on individuals and society and the decrease in life expectancy linked ...
Airing Pain 83: Arthritis: From self-help to cutting edge research
June 30 , 2016
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Getting moving with tai chi, staying in work and why arthritis pain is not all about the joints
This edition is funded by the Agnes Hunter Trust.
Over ten million people in the UK live with arthritis and it is the most common cause of pain. Professor David Walsh ...
