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Supporting amputee veterans to rebuild their lives, and psychological techniques beyond words To listen to this programme, please click here. Prefer a PDF?Download Hundreds of veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan sustained injuries leading to the loss of one or more limbs. In the second of this Airing ...

Improving treatment for veterans in pain and facing the challenges of civilian life To listen to this programme, please click here. Prefer a PDF?Download ‘Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.’ A motto tattooed onto the arm of a wounded veteran which, although easier said than done, is good advice ...

Making sense of side effects, the power of placebo, and the improving treatment of neuropathic pain To listen to this programme, please click here. Prefer a PDF?Download Tens of thousands of soldiers in the First World War survived with limb amputations, but doctors and wider society were unprepared for and ...

How children can express their pain in art, plus tips for parents To listen to this programme, please click here. Prefer a PDF?Download ‘In hospital. Don’t know what’s going to happen to me.’ These words, written by a child asked to describe her pain after surgery, speak of the anxiety ...

Putting patients first, and teenage life with pain. To listen to this programme, please click here. Prefer a PDF?Download How can healthcare systems adapt to meet the needs of people in pain? Airing Pain returns to Northern Ireland to find out how the findings of the Painful Truth report into ...

How to break the links between poverty, pain and unemployment To listen to this programme, please click here. Prefer a PDF?Download In the second programme in our Good Work double bill we hear how people in pain and their families are affected by barriers to employment and support. Kieran McGhee and ...

How to move from sick leave to ‘good work’ To listen to this programme, please click here. Prefer a PDF?Download As many as a quarter of people with chronic pain go on to lose their jobs, so what can be done to make staying in work more achievable? We look ...

Tune in and turn down the volume on pain To listen to this programme, please click here. Prefer a PDF?Download Could music be a key resource for managing pain? The results of a survey on music and chronic pain are promising, according to psychologist and musician Prof Raymond MacDonald. Meanwhile, ...

Taking care of our feet, plus, why we need toes To listen to this programme, please click here. Prefer a PDF?Download About ten per cent of the adult population experience disabling levels of foot pain. Producer Paul Evans hears from the experts about professional help, self-management and why we need ...

Why self-management isn’t working and what we can do about it To listen to this programme, please click here. Prefer a PDF?Download We know that supported self-management reduces the impact of chronic pain on daily life, but many people in pain feel that they are not getting that support from ...

Persistent pain and the fight to end female genital mutilation For more information about FGM, please see our FGM factsheet. [Tafadhali bofya hapa ili kusoma nukuu ya nakala ya programu hii iliyofasiriwa kwa Kiswahili.] To listen to this programme, please click here. Prefer a PDF?Download Over 100,000 women in the UK have ...

[Kwa habari zaidi kuhusu ukeketaji wa wanawake, tafadhali tazama waraka wetu wa habari za ukweli kuhusu ukeketaji wa wanawake.] Unapendelea PDF?Download Maumivu endelevu na mapambano ya kukomesha ukeketaji wa wanawake. Zaidi ya wanawake 100,000 nchini Uingereza wameathirika na ukeketaji wa wanawake pamoja na athari mbaya za muda mrefu ikiwemo maumivu ...