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April 14 , 2025
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Customisable Social Media Banner Personalise this banner with your event name and share your fundraiser online! Click on the image to take you to Canva where you can edit the template with your details. If you don't already have a Canva account, you can create a free one. Or ...

Friendship Inspires 10k run

April 11 , 2025
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Fundraiser Liz Sharpe ran Brighton 10K in November in aid of Pain Concern after being inspired by how much the charity has helped her friend Vicki Cooper. ...

Airing Pain 146: Irritable Bowel Syndrome & Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBS & IBD)

October 09 , 2024
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This edition of Airing Pain focuses on two conditions affecting the gut: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Both affect the digestive system, and both cause pain.  In this episode we learn about what separates these outwardly similar sounding conditions, how they are diagnosed, and ...

Airing Pain 146: Irritable Bowel Syndrome & Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBS & IBD) (Transcript)

October 09 , 2024
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Download PDF Listen now First broadcast: 09 October 2024 This edition of Airing Pain focuses on two conditions affecting the gut: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). The edition is presented and produced by Paul Evans. The interviews were recorded at the British Pain Society’s Annual Scientific Meeting, 2024.  Edition ...

Letter to my patient #2: Communicating Pain

September 04 , 2024
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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, ...

People’s Panel for Persistent Pain seeks views

November 21 , 2023
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The Welsh Government is interested in hearing more about the experiences of adults who live with persistent pain. They are looking for people to: join a focus group of people living with persistent pain join a focus group of people caring for or working with people living with persistent pain share ...

Pain Concern Poster wins People’s Choice Award!

November 08 , 2023
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Find out about our award-winning poster, and take a read yourself.

Triathlon challenge

May 25 , 2023
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Dr Mick Serpell, Consultant in Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine for Greater Glasgow & Clyde NHS Let me explain, I work with patients who have chronic pain. My journey as a novice in the triathlon world required me to make changes in my beliefs and behaviours. Changes very similar ...

Airing Pain Survey

March 08 , 2023
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Pain Concern invites you to help shape the future of Airing Pain, the award-winning radio programme and podcast. Please fill in this short survey to support what we do. If you prefer, refresh your memory before you begin and take a listen to Airing Pain. Start Airing Pain survey ...

Shingles, Post-herpetic Neuralgia and Chronic Pain Resources

September 30 , 2022
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Funded by The RS MacDonald Charitable Trust and the Stafford Trust. Pain Concern have produced a selection of key resources about shingles, post-herpetic neuralgia and pain associated with shingles. Just over a year ago in August 2021, we released an Airing Pain podcast programme - #129 'Shingles & ...

North British Pain Association Autumn Scientific Meeting 2022 Poster Prize Winner

September 30 , 2022
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We are pleased to share the North British Pain Association Autumn Scientific Meeting 2022 Poster Prize Winner Cassandra MacGregor’s poster: An Ecosystem of Accepting Life with Chronic Pain: A Meta-ethnography. View the poster in full below. Cassandra's MacGregor and her PhD team's poster An Ecosystem of Accepting Life ...

Empowering Patients: Dr Rupa Joshi describes the group clinics that are helping patients to achieve their goals

September 29 , 2022
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To manage the symptoms of long-term pain and long COVID. We are thrilled to announce that the latest episode of the Airing Pain podcast is out now! Click here to listen to the programme now. To accompany the new programme, we are publishing an exclusive article which ...