Pain Press

Calderside Medical Practice in Lanarkshire has moved from treating persistent pain as a symptom that needs a drug to treating it as a long-term condition that can be managed with information and support. Since changing their approach in 2016 they have registered around 300 patients with pain ...

Author Leeanne Killen is Community Link Worker/Primary Care Development Manager, North Ayrshire Health & Social Care Partnership. Health is impacted by a wide range of factors that are not always medical, including isolation, money worries, housing issues, self-management, work, and lifestyle. Leeanne Killen gives an insight into ...

This is an article by the Brain & Spine Foundation and was included in the March 2022 issue of Pain Press - The Pain Matters Supplement. Not all disabilities, conditions or illnesses are visible. Chronic pain, alongside a wide range of other symptoms and conditions, belongs to a ...