Research
Read posts about research into chronic pain.
NSAID Study Results
November 21 , 2023
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Last year some of our members kindly contributed to a study carried out by the University of Strathclyde on behalf of HIS (Healthcare Improvement Scotland). This study aimed to explore the advice and support offered to patients by pharmacists taking common painkillers known as NSAIDs (Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory ...
Pain Concern Poster wins People’s Choice Award!
November 08 , 2023
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Find out about our award-winning poster, and take a read yourself.
NICE are looking for your help
August 30 , 2023
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NICE are calling for help from people with lived experience of pain and their healthcare professionals - help shape their patient decision aid.
Pain Concern presents poster on the Impact of Helpline Services
May 09 , 2023
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Pain Concern presented the poster 'Impact of a Patient-led Helpline on NHS Services' at the British Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting 2023.
Read below, or download the poster.
The poster was created by Dr. Martin Dunbar, Dr. Cathy Price and Pain Concern's People, Project and Operations Manager Sam Mason. ...
Airing Pain 134 – Warwick Study of Mental Defeat in Chronic Pain
December 01 , 2022
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Listen to Airing Pain 134 - Warwick Study of Mental Defeat in Chronic Pain
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 ...
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 ...
Pain Management in Lockdown
April 28 , 2020
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Pain specialists from around the world have reviewed ways in which people with chronic pain can continue to be helped using modern technology despite pain treatment centre across the world having closed their doors. Publishing their results in the medical journal Pain, they point out that telemedicine ...
Call for Volunteers for a Study to Help Explain Distress and Disability in Chronic Pain
April 22 , 2020
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ARE YOU AN ADULT WITH CHRONIC PAIN?
Our friends at the University of Warwick Psychology Department's Sleep & Pain Lab are looking for volunteers to complete a short online questionnaire for their WITHIN study, which aims to help explain distress and disability in chronic pain.
If you are interested ...
Cannabis and Chronic Pain
September 12 , 2019
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NICE guidance on cannabis-based medicines out for consultation
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued draft guidance for the use of cannabis-based medicines considering the evidence for their use in intractable nausea and vomiting; chronic pain; spasticity and epilepsy. It covers other related topics, ...
Airing Pain 117: Patients as Research Partners
September 03 , 2019
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Involving patients in researching their own condition – it seems logical, so why is it not more common?
This edition was facilitated by the British Pain Society and recorded at their Annual Scientific Meeting 2019.
In this edition of Airing Pain, Paul Evans investigates the potential for patients to ...
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 ...
