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Airing Pain #149 : Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity (Transcript)

May 21 , 2025
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Download PDF Listen now Airing Pain 149: Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity First broadcast 21st May 2025 This edition of Airing Pain looks at the research into why pain persists, how we can identify people at risk and whether we could prevent it happening. The interviews ...

Airing Pain #149 Trailer: Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity (Transcript)

May 16 , 2025
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Download PDF Listen now Trailer - Airing Pain 149: Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity First broadcast 16th May 2025 Shafiq Sikander, a professor of sensory neurophysiology at the William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University, London. Gareth Hathway, professor of neuroscience at the University of Nottingham’s’ ...

Airing Pain #148 Trailer: Links between Hypermobility and Neurodivergence (Transcript)

May 02 , 2025
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Download Transcript PDF Listen now Airing Pain 148 Trailer | Links between hypermobility and neurodivergence To be broadcast 5th March 2025 Transcript begins Paul Evans: Do people with neurodivergence experience pain differently to those who are neurotypical? And what's the link between neurodivergence and hypermobility? Speaker 2: The concept that everybody experiences pain ...

Airing Pain #148: Links between Hypermobility and Neurodivergence (Transcript)

March 05 , 2025
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Download Transcript PDF Listen now Airing Pain 148 | Links between hypermobility and neurodivergence First broadcast: 5th March 2025 Listen to AP #148 This edition of Airing Pain explores how neurodivergent individuals experience pain, potential links to hypermobility, and the need for better education to support conditions like autism and ADHD. The edition ...

Airing Pain #147: Person-Centred Care (Transcript)

December 04 , 2024
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Download PDF Listen now First broadcast: 04 December 2024 This edition of Airing Pain focuses on person-centred care. Person-centred care is based on the individual rather than on a generic group of patients.   The edition is presented and produced by Paul Evans. The interviews were recorded at the British Pain ...

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

September 16 , 2025
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“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 ...

Airing Pain Shorts: Interview with Jason Wilsher-Mills

August 22 , 2025
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This Airing Pain Short is an interview by Christine Johnston with the artist Jason WIlsher-Mills. Contributors:  Jason WIlsher-Mills, is an artist from West Yorkshire who creates work about disability and childhood trauma. Jason has lived with pain, chronic polyneuropathy, since he was a child. Additional Resources:  "You're never alone" - discover ...

Airing Pain #149: Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity

May 21 , 2025
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This edition of Airing Pain looks at the research into why pain persists, how we can identify people at risk and whether we could prevent it happening. In this episode: How does acute short-term pain turn into chronic, persistent pain? Kathleen Sluka explains that people who experience psychological trauma ...

Airing Pain #149 Trailer: Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity

May 16 , 2025
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This edition of Airing Pain focuses on advances in understanding and managing chronic pain, from neuroimmune mechanisms to new diagnostic and treatment approaches. In this trailer for AP 149, listen to excerpts from the full program on:- how does acute, short term pain turn into chronic, persistent pain? - ...

Airing Pain #148 Trailer: Links between Hypermobility and Neurodivergence

May 02 , 2025
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This edition of Airing Pain explores how neurodivergent individuals experience pain, potential links to hypermobility, and the need for better education to support conditions like autism and ADHD. Neurodiversity refers to the different ways a person’s brain processes information.It is an umbrella term used to describe a number ...

Airing Pain #148: Links between Hypermobility and Neurodivergence

March 05 , 2025
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This edition of Airing Pain explores how neurodivergent individuals experience pain, potential links to hypermobility, and the need for better education to support conditions like autism and ADHD. Neurodiversity refers to the different ways a person’s brain processes information.It is an umbrella term used to describe a number ...

Airing Pain #147: Person-Centred Care

December 04 , 2024
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This episode of Airing Pain focuses on person-centred care. Person-centred care is based on the individual rather than on a generic group of patients.   In this episode:  Vicky Sandy-Davis, Lead Nurse of Independent Health and Social Care, talks about the importance of recognizing the value of person-centred care, specifically ...
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