Treatments (not medication)
How a medical practice changed its approach to pain
August 02 , 2023
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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 ...
Chronic pain and health inequalities: what should we do?
March 22 , 2023
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This guest article from Cass Macgregor and Bronagh Galvin explores the current inequalities in health care for those in chronic pain.
TENS for pain relief
July 05 , 2019
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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 ...
Airing Pain 111: Physiotherapy, Mind, Body And The Social Component
March 06 , 2019
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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 ...