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Better communication for doctors and patients and how to make the most of medical appointments To listen to this programme, please click here. Prefer a PDF?Download Communication is fundamental to the relationship between patient and healthcare professional. In this programme Airing Pain looks at this issue from both the patient and doctor’s ...

What is a spinal cord stimulator and could it help you to manage your pain? Plus, complex regional pain syndrome, mirror therapy for phantom limbs, and how chronic pain affects and is affected by sleep To listen to this programme, please click here. Prefer a PDF?Download Paul Evans meets Edith ...

How do culture and religion affect the way we experience and manage our pain?  To listen to this programme, please click here. AP13 Culture, epidemiology and back painDownload Dr Shilpa Patel, Dr Sue Peacock and Sir Michael Bond talk about the relationship between cultural background and pain. Also in the programme: ...

Using cannabis as a painkiller, pelvic pain in men and women, and living with trigeminal neuralgia To listen to this programme, please click here. Prefer a PDF?Download Paul Evans looks at the often uncomfortable subject of pelvic pain and how both women and men can get help. Dr William Notcutt, ...

Paul Evans learns to knit, and, how music can be used for pain relief To listen to this programme, please click here. Prefer a PDF?Download Paul Evans gets a knitting lesson when he visits the Stitchlinks group in Bath, where people use craft activities to manage their pain. Betsan Corkhill ...

Patients and health professionals at a residential pain management programme in Bath talk about the pain management needs of younger people and the aims of the programme To listen to this programme, please click here. Prefer a PDF?Download Paul Evans visits the Centre for Pain Services at the Royal National ...

How acupuncture and TENS can help relieve pain, plus, a new web service aiming to educate health professionals about pain To listen to this programme, please click here. Prefer a PDF?Download We take a look at the role of the pain specialist nurse in the community, eavesdropping on two consultations ...

Is work good for us? We discuss working with chronic pain and the benefits system To listen to this programme, please click here. Prefer a PDF?Download In the wake of the government’s introduction of the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) which will see all people already on incapacity benefits reassessed ...

Getting back into exercise and improving mobility. Plus, funding for pain services, and how can we best describe pain to a health professional? To listen to this programme, please click here. Prefer a PDF?Download Airing Pain visits the Frenchay Hospital Pain Clinic in Bristol where we hear from staff and ...

How pacing can help people with pain regain control, plus arthritis myth-busting, the future of pain management in the UK and a Q&A session on pain relief.   To listen to the programme, please click here. Prefer a PDF?Download Pacing is the thing that makes the most difference to his patients’ ...

Pain management programmes can ‘remove the barriers’ that prevent people with pain from living a normal life, says Dr Owen Hughes of the Pain and Fatigue Management Centre in Bronllys, Wales To listen to this programme, please click here. Prefer a PDF?Download Presenter Lionel Kelleway returns to the Bronllys Residential ...

How diet can help manage pain, the benefits of mindfulness, CBT and exercise, and a Q&A with pain specialist Mark Turtle To listen to this programme, please click here. Prefer a PDF?Download In this programme, Airing Pain looks at a range of lifestyle changes and psychological approaches we can use to ...