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Managing Emotions with Chronic Pain Leaflet
March 19 , 2022
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This leaflet is designed to help you think about how chronic pain can give rise to difficult feelings and thoughts. David Craig and Katy Gordon look at how this can affect your life and how to address these emotional effects of pain.
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The Pain Toolkit by Pete Moore
March 15 , 2022
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What is the Pain Toolkit?
'The Pain Toolkit is for people who live with persistent pain and healthcare teams who support them. Many people with pain say they feel trapped or stuck in a persistent pain cycle? On good days they do more and on bad days ...
Inspiring Volunteer Awards 2022 – Pain Concern Takes Home Awards
March 02 , 2022
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We are thrilled to announce that our dedicated Audio Transcription Volunteers Alisa, Fiona, Cara and Owen were recognised this year at the Inspiring Volunteer Awards held at Edinburgh City Chambers. They play a huge role here at Pain Concern making our podcasts more accessible and inclusive, particularly ...
How Mindfulness Can Help Manage Neuropathic Pain
February 23 , 2022
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This is an article by Julie Sinclair and Salma Angelinetta and was included in the February 2022 issue of Pain Press — The Pain Matters Supplement.
Although it’s not as common as the more generic ‘chronic pain’, neuropathic pain is thought to affect up to 8% of the population in the ...
Getting a Good Night’s Sleep Leaflet
January 19 , 2022
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Many people living with chronic pain report difficulties with sleep. Pain makes getting comfortable in bed harder and can delay falling asleep. It can also reduce sleep continuity, which means increasing the amount of times you wake at night and waking you earlier ...
Pain Concern Book Club – Where Does It Hurt?: Life With Chronic Pain – A Memoir by Tim Atkinson
January 13 , 2022
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This isn’t just a book about Atkinsons pain journey though. Where Does It Hurt?: is full of historical information about pain and its treatment, notable research and science experiments, pop culture references and a sense of humour which makes it a joy to read.
Facial Pain podcast coming soon: new Airing Pain
December 23 , 2021
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We are thrilled to announce that the next episode of our podcast Airing Pain will be on the topic of facial pain!
Following on from our 2021 face pain magazine (click here to get the magazine) in collaboration with The Eastman Dental Hospital, this programme will be released ...
Managing your mental health at Christmas
December 21 , 2021
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A message from Rehab 4 addiction
The festivities of the Christmas season bring happiness and joy to a lot of families and people. For some, Christmas brings a chance to have big parties, and connect with distant family and friends.
For others, it's an opportunity to enjoy a lowkey ...
Pain Matters 79 — Out Today
November 22 , 2021
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Our new issue, Pain Matters 79, is released today, Monday 22nd November 2021
What do we mean when we talk about pain?
Inside issue 79: The Global Alliance of Partners for Pain Advocacy (GAPPA) was started by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) in 2018. IASP is the leading ...
New Airing Pain Podcast Episode OUT NOW
November 02 , 2021
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https://audioboom.com/posts/7969975-pain-management-programmes-the-health-unlocked-forum
For full details & transcription click here ...
September is Pain Awareness Month!
September 15 , 2021
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The theme for Pain Awareness Month 2021 is #PAINCOUNTS
The World Health Assembly (WHA) – a subsection of the World Health Organization (WHO) – has declared September Pain Awareness Month. This month is dedicated to raising public awareness and understanding of pain. Many organisations around the world contribute, ...
World Suicide Prevention Day 2021
September 10 , 2021
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Trigger warning: suicide, suicide ideation, self-harm
The 10th of September marks World Suicide Prevention Day 2021. So, here at Pain Concern, we decided to do some research on the links between suicide and chronic pain.
Despite the fact that research in this area is limited, there is already ...
