Tag: chronic pain
NBPA Autumn Scientific Meeting 2024
January 16 , 2025
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The North British Pain Association (NBPA) held its Autumn Scientific Meeting on 8th November 2024 in Edinburgh, focusing on the theme of Pain Management Across Identities.
Thank You!
We thank the NBPA committee for organising a day of engaging talks and discussions. It was inspiring to hear about efforts ...
New Chronic Pain Knowledge Hub
November 26 , 2024
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We’re excited to share the launch of the Chronic Pain Knowledge Hub, a new resource from NHS Education for Scotland. This hub has been developed in partnership with the National Pain Education Group, of which Pain Concern is a member.
What is the Hub?
The Hub was created ...
New Online Mindfulness Taster Sessions
October 22 , 2024
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After the amazing response to our last free, online mindfulness taster sessions, we are thrilled to be bringing them back!
The design of these sessions is to give you a peek into the potential benefits of mindfulness for chronic pain, sample a few practices, and answer all your ...
Letter to my patient #3: Opioids
September 04 , 2024
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There are tricky pain topics where the gulf in understanding between clinician and patient can be difficult to bridge, and none are trickier than the question of opioids, Lars Williams writes.
Dr Lars Williams is a consultant anaesthetist and pain specialist working for the NHS Greater Glasgow & ...
Predictors of Suicide Risk in Chronic Pain Patients
February 29 , 2024
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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 ...
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.
Airing Pain 134 – Warwick Study of Mental Defeat in Chronic Pain
December 01 , 2022
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Listen to Airing Pain 134 - Warwick Study of Mental Defeat in Chronic Pain
Earn Continuing Professional Development credits through Airing Pain
October 20 , 2022
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Find out about how you can earn Continuing Professional Development credits by listening to, and reflecting on, Pain Concern's Airing Pain podcast.
World Suicide Prevention Day 2021
September 10 , 2021
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Trigger warning: suicide, suicide ideation, self-harm
The 10th of September marks World Suicide Prevention Day 2021. So, here at Pain Concern, we decided to do some research on the links between suicide and chronic pain.
Despite the fact that research in this area is limited, there is already ...
Airing Pain 121: Living with Persistent Pain in Wales
March 03 , 2020
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Discussing the future of chronic pain services across Wales
This edition of Airing Pain has been partially funded by an educational grant from Grünenthal Limited, donated for this purpose.
In April 2019, the Minister for Health and Social Services in Wales launched the guidance document Living with Persistent Pain ...
Domestic Abuse and Chronic Pain Resources
March 10 , 2021
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Funded by a grant from the Women's Fund for Scotland
In 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Pain Concern received a grant from the Women's Fund for Scotland. With this funding we created an extended episode of our podcast, Airing Pain, on the topic of domestic ...
Airing Pain at 100 with the Glasgow Pain Education Sessions
March 14 , 2018
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Airing Pain’s centenary! In this landmark edition Paul Evans explores the origins of Airing Pain with founder Heather Wallace, and visits one of Pain Concern’s informative pain education sessions
In 2010, Airing Pain was conceived as a way for those with chronic pain, unable to leave their homes ...
