Airing Pain #150: Pain Education Classes – Learn to live well with pain

“A life-changing experience” – Lindsay McLean, Airing Pain #150

This episode of Airing Pain explores the transformative impacts of pain education classes.

Featuring excerpts from a live education session, here we look at how a brief, free course—delivered by trained volunteers with lived experience—is empowering people to navigate life with chronic pain.  

Listen to hear how patients are learning more about their pain and the toolbox of techniques available to manage it. 

These sessions are the result of a unique collaboration between Pain Concern and the NHS. They are available both online and in person (in Glasgow, run by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s pain management team). Find out more in ‘Additional Resources’ below. 

“[The sessions] offer hope” 

“If you can learn to turn the volume of pain down, you can bring back joy and an ability to participate in life” 

“Now I’m in control of the pain instead of the pain being in control of me” 

Watch Lorimer Moseley’s ‘Why Things Hurt’, as highlighted by educator Joan Melville, here – https://youtu.be/gwd-wLdIHjs?si=ckR6O4CN7LPM9a9K.

Professor Moseley also features on Airing Pain #37, where they explain the relationship between chronic pain and the brain – https://painconcern.org.uk/airing-pain-programme-37-what-is-pain/

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Contributors: 

Dr David Craig

Joan Melville

Georgina McDonald

Mairi McWilliams

Lindsay McLean

Heather Wallace

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Thanks

Pain Concern thanks the following funders for their unrestricted educational grants: Richer Sound; NHS Lothian Charity, The National Lottery Community Fund; The Hugh Fraser Foundation; The Trades House of Glasgow Commonweal Fund.

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Additional Resources: 

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