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86. Sickle cell disease

February 01 , 2017
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Patient and clinician perspectives on living with Sickle Cell disease and the importance of a multidisciplinary approach This edition has been funded by donations from Pain Concern’s friends and supporters. An estimated 15,000 people in the UK are living with Sickle Cell disease and at least 250,000 are carriers. ...

Self-management workshop in Glasgow

November 11 , 2016
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Pain Concern Research Workshop - supporting people with chronic pain develop self management approaches When:14/12/2016 at 01:00pm Pain Concern invite you to join them for an afternoon workshop exploring new ways to support people with chronic pain develop approaches to improved self management. Pain Concern have recently received funding to ...

Joint Pain Concern–NHS pain education project wins awards

October 05 , 2016
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Pain Concern's collaboration with Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GGC) NHS was a winner last night at the Alliance Scotland's Self Management Awards. The project won in the Self Management Supporting Health and Social Care Partnership of the Year category. The winning team! The pilot project nominated for the award 'West ...

Push Parliament to recognise burden of pain

September 12 , 2016
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An Early Day Motion on Chronic Pain (Number 195) has been posted in the House of Commons and currently has the signatures of over 50 MPs. The Motion urges MPs to recognise the burden chronic pain places on individuals and society and the decrease in life expectancy linked ...

85. Pain in Europe

July 26 , 2016
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Why pain is a matter of life and death, the struggle for diagnosis and challenging misperceptions of palliative care This edition is funded by Grünenthal. Around 20 per cent of Europe’s adult population live with chronic pain and the consequences for individuals and society are devastating. In this edition ...

84. Post-cancer pain

July 11 , 2016
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How cancer survivors can manage long term pain and creating a home from home at the hospital This edition is funded by the Agnes Hunter Trust. More people than ever before survive cancer, but the disease and treatment can have long-lasting effects on health, including chronic pain. In this ...

83. Arthritis

June 30 , 2016
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Getting moving with tai chi, staying in work and why arthritis pain is not all about the joints This edition is funded by the Agnes Hunter Trust. Over ten million people in the UK live with arthritis and it is the most common cause of pain. Professor David Walsh ...

Pain community flexes muscles in Brussels

June 21 , 2016
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Pamela Bell of Pain Concern and Neil Betteridge of the Chronic Pain Policy Coalition outside the EU Parliament On Thursday 23 June millions of Britons go to the polls to decide whether to leave or remain in the European Union. Of course that’s not an issue Pain Concern ...

82. PTSD

June 15 , 2016
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The emotional and physical impacts of injury and how to cope with them This edition has been funded by the Forces in Mind Trust and the MacRobert Trust. In the third instalment of our Airing Pain miniseries on military veterans living with pain we focus on the relationship between ...

81. Life after limb loss

June 02 , 2016
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Supporting amputee veterans to rebuild their lives, and psychological techniques beyond words This edition has been funded by the MacRobert Trust and the Forces in Mind Trust. Hundreds of veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan sustained injuries leading to the loss of one or more limbs. In ...