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Charles Patterson is Digital Facilitator at Powys Living Well Service The Powys Living Well Service supports individuals across the rural county of Powys. Charles Patterson explains the importance of providing consistent, high-quality care and support as close to home as possible Supporting independence with local care Care and support close ...

Dale Rockell listens to, and reviews, edition 142 of Airing Pain: Societal Inequalities and Disparities in Pain Management. Dale Rockell is a photographer, blogger and Airing Pain listener who lives with fibromyalgia. As someone living with Fibromyalgia, I have an active interest in learning to live better ...

Living with chronic pain can be a heavy burden. Indeed, people with chronic pain face double the risk of death by suicide compared to individuals without pain. And so it is vitally important to identify those at risk in order to get them the right help and ...

Narrated and introduced by Beth Evans, editor of Pain Matters. First published in Pain Matters 85. In November of last year, Liz, 33, ran the Brighton 10k to fundraise for Pain Concern. She was inspired to do so because of her friendship with Vicki, 33 an office administrator for ...

Pete Moore Senior Trainer in the NHS Expert Patient Programme and Pain Champion A free interactive resource developed using cutting-edge technology to help millions living with persistent pain has been launched in collaboration with Teesside University. AI Pete: Interactive Support for Persistent Pain Academics from Teesside University’s Centre for Rehabilitation worked ...

Zoe and Zak's Pain Hacks by Dr Joshua Pate. Review by Tim Atkinson Tim Atkinson is an author, freelance writer and Vice-Chairman of the British Pain Society Patient Voice Committee. Contrary to the long-held (and, thankfully, long-discredited) notion that babies "can't feel pain" we now know that, just like ...

The Chronic Pain Couple, by Karra Eloff. Review by Tim Atkinson Tim Atkinson is an author, freelance writer and Vice-Chairman of the British Pain Society Patient Voice Committee. "No man is an island" wrote John Donne. To which we might add man, woman, and child. But for the chronic ...

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Niki Jones and Lee Vaughan (left, second from left), Trustee Richard Pell (centre) and their supporters. In September 2023 two fundraisers with lived experience of pain undertook an epic 144 mile ride from one side of the UK to the other, with the aim of highlighting the ...

Read about Lindsay McLean's experience of a pain management programme from the perspective of a patient, and how it affected her life.