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Pain Matters Issue 77 – Facial Pain
January 01 , 2022
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Inside issue 77: When you have pain in your face, who do you go to see about it? The dentist might be your first port of call, but what happens if the problem is not dental? The Facial Pain Team, based at the Eastman Dental ...
Airing Pain 129: Shingles & PHN (Post Herpetic Neuralgia)
August 03 , 2021
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Determining what Shingles really is and why vaccine uptake is so low?
This edition of Airing Pain has been funded by a grant from The RS Macdonald Charitable Trust and The Stafford Trust
What exactly is Shingles? We often hear it thrown into conversation alongside a virus many of us have already ...
Airing Pain 127: Taking the Sting out the Tail of Neuropathic & Parkinson’s Pain
April 06 , 2021
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Examining misconceptions about Parkinson's Disease and neuropathic pain, and discussing how best to manage persistent pain.
This edition of Airing Pain has been funded by a grant from The RS Macdonald Charitable Trust and The Stafford Trust
Do you, someone you care for or perhaps your patients, suffer from persistent ...
Airing Pain 128: Back Pain & Pain from a Global Perspective with the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)
June 01 , 2021
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Looking into one of the most globally prevalent types of pain, back pain, and exploring different cultural attitudes towards pain.
This edition of Airing Pain was created in association with the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) and has been funded by the Plum Trust.Back pain ...
Airing Pain 124: Diabetic Neuropathy
September 01 , 2020
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Managing neuropathic pain related to diabetes, and how to adapt diet to treat the disease
This edition of Airing Pain has been supported by a grant from The Champ Trust and Foundation Scotland.
According to the most recent Scottish Diabetes Survey in 2018, there are an estimated 304,000 people ...
Domestic Abuse and Chronic Pain Resources
March 10 , 2021
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Funded by a grant from the Women's Fund for Scotland
In 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Pain Concern received a grant from the Women's Fund for Scotland. With this funding we created an extended episode of our podcast, Airing Pain, on the topic of domestic ...
Airing Pain 120: Osteoporosis
January 07 , 2020
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How we prevent, manage and diagnose this ‘silent disease’
This edition of Airing Pain has been supported by a grant from The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust.
Osteoporosis is a largely ignored condition that affects over 3 million people in the UK, with women being more at risk; a condition ...
Airing Pain 125: Opioid-Induced Constipation
November 03 , 2020
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Looking at the side effects of opioids for chronic pain management
Pain Concern is grateful to Professor Lesley Colvin, Dr Paul Farquhar-Smith and the charity Maggie’s for their help and advice.
While opioids are seen as an effective treatment method for acute pain, there is an increasing debate on ...
Neuropathic Pain leaflet
November 25 , 2019
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We are delighted to announce that our popular booklet on neuropathic pain has been revised and reprinted, thanks to an award from Foundation Scotland.
The booklet, originally written by Dr John Lee, has been revised and updated by Dr Alan Fayaz, Consultant in Chronic Pain Medicine, Anaesthesia and ...
Pain Matters 73: Neuropathic pain special – Out Now!
October 31 , 2019
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We are delighted here at Pain Matters HQ to have the neuropathic pain team from University College London Hospital Pain Management Centre guest-editing issue 73. This edition of the magazine takes an in-depth look at all aspects of neuropathic pain, from what it is to how best to manage ...
Airing Pain 123: Opioids and Chronic Pain
July 07 , 2020
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Rethinking long-term pain management
This edition of Airing Pain has been supported with a grant from Kyowa Kirin donated for this purpose.
The opioid crisis reached its peak in the United States in 2017, where addiction and overprescription have led to 218,000 deaths from prescription overdoses between the years of 1999 and 2017. The ...
Amitriptyline
July 12 , 2019
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Find out about amitriptyline, how it works and the side effects that you might experience when first taking it.
