Research
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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued draft guidance for the use of cannabis-based medicines considering the evidence for their use in intractable nausea and vomiting; chronic pain; spasticity and epilepsy.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 ...
Chronic pain after breast cancer surgery
July 11 , 2019
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Breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting women, and surgery – either to the breast and/or the underarm area – is the main treatment. There are two main types of breast operation: a mastectomy (removal of the whole breast) or a lumpectomy (removal of ...
Airing Pain 112: Measuring Pain, Reading the Brain
April 02 , 2019
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How pain’s subjectivity makes it difficult to measure, rewiring the brain, and new research that allows patients to visualise their pain
This edition is funded by the Plum Foundation.
In this edition of Airing Pain, returning contributor Mark Johnson, Director of the Centre for Pain Research at Leeds Beckett ...
Airing Pain 108: Gender Differences
November 06 , 2018
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How men and women experience pain, arming yourself with the right information, and not being embarrassed about your condition
This edition’s been part funded by the Women’s Fund for Scotland.
Do women and men experience pain differently, or is it only our attitudes towards pain that differ? In this ...
New study — Cannabinoids and chronic non-cancer pain conditions
November 05 , 2018
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Cannabis and Chronic Pain
The journal Pain recently published an important study on the use of cannabis, and medicines based on cannabis (cannabinoids), for chronic pain conditions (chronic pain in cancer patients was specifically excluded). Researchers were from institutes in Sydney, Brisbane and London specialising in substance abuse ...
Airing Pain 107: Easing Pain Appointments with the Navigator Tool
October 02 , 2018
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How Pain Concern’s Navigator Tool can help focus pain appointments
This edition has been funded by funded by the Health and Social Care Alliance and Edinburgh and Lothians Health Foundation.
In 2015 Pain Concern released its report, ‘Breaking barriers to self-management of chronic pain in primary care’, marking the ...
