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Airing Pain #149: Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity (Transcript)

May 21 , 2025
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Download PDF Listen now Airing Pain 149: Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity First broadcast 21st May 2025 This edition of Airing Pain looks at the research into why pain persists, how we can identify people at risk and whether we could prevent it happening. The interviews ...

Airing Pain 149: Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity

May 21 , 2025
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This edition of Airing Pain looks at the research into why pain persists, how we can identify people at risk and whether we could prevent it happening. In this episode: How does acute short-term pain turn into chronic, persistent pain? Kathleen Sluka explains that people who experience psychological trauma ...

Airing Pain #149 Trailer: Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity (Transcript)

May 16 , 2025
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Download PDF Listen now Trailer - Airing Pain 149: Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity First broadcast 16th May 2025 Shafiq Sikander, a professor of sensory neurophysiology at the William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University, London. Gareth Hathway, professor of neuroscience at the University of Nottingham’s’ ...

Airing Pain #149 Trailer: Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity

May 16 , 2025
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This edition of Airing Pain focuses on advances in understanding and managing chronic pain, from neuroimmune mechanisms to new diagnostic and treatment approaches. In this trailer for AP 149, listen to excerpts from the full program on:- how does acute, short term pain turn into chronic, persistent pain? - ...

Airing Pain 140: Childhood Pain – Adverse Experiences and Parental Relationships

November 15 , 2023
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Listen to Airing Pain 140 to hear about the links between adverse childhood experiences, pain and parental mindset.

Pain Matters 80 — Out Today

May 13 , 2022
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Our new issue, Pain Matters 80, is released today, Friday 13th May 2022. How we think about pain and how we research it. Inside Issue 80: Funding for pain research is absolutely essential in order to move towards a healthcare system with improved outcomes, where quality of patient care ...