Treatments (not medication)

Lars Williams wonders if there is something about the nature of chronic pain that leaves clinicians uncomfortable, and makes it hard for them to communicate with their patients Dr Lars Williams is a consultant anaesthetist and pain specialist working for the NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde Pain Service, ...

Sam Mason from Pain Concern discusses NHS Fife's Chronic Pain Management Initiative on BBC Scotland's The Nine One of August's highlights was the appearance of our very own Sam Mason on BBC Scotland’s news program The Nine. She offered insights into NHS Fife's Chronic Pain Management Initiative to ...

Calderside Medical Practice in Lanarkshire has moved from treating persistent pain as a symptom that needs a drug to treating it as a long-term condition that can be managed with information and support. Since changing their approach in 2016 they have registered around 300 patients with pain ...

This guest article from Cass Macgregor and Bronagh Galvin explores the current inequalities in health care for those in chronic pain.

Prefer a PDF?Download People living with long-term pain may be offered treatment with a TENS machine to help ease their symptoms, but what is it? How does it work? And what can it bring to your pain management toolkit? Physiotherapist Dr Pete Gladwell draws upon his clinical experience ...

Anxiety and expectations, how ‘fear circuitry’ affects self-management, and the importance of social prescribing This edition is supported by friends of Pain Concern. Director of CSPC Physiotherapy in Leeds, Alison Rose, specialises in working with high-level athletes, particularly those with complex injury histories. Rose speaks to Paul about her ...