Tag: depression
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 ...
Managing Emotions with Chronic Pain Leaflet
March 19 , 2022
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Take me to the leaflet
This leaflet is designed to help you think about how chronic pain can give rise to difficult feelings and thoughts. David Craig and Katy Gordon look at how this can affect your life and how to address these emotional effects of pain.
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Airing Pain 58: The Pain Toolkit
June 05 , 2014
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Learning to live with it: a toolkit for self-management
This edition has been funded by a grant from the Scottish Government.
‘You have to learn to live with it.’ Pete Moore’s GP told him after running out of treatment options for chronic pain. From his own experiences of learning ...
Airing Pain 57: Self-Management, Psychology and ‘Physio-terrorists’
May 20 , 2014
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Stiff joints and dark thoughts: treatment of pain and the person
This edition has been funded by a grant from the Scottish Government.
‘Pain medicine isn’t good at dealing with the effect of pain on the person’, says Jonathan Bannister, Head of the Multidisciplinary Pain Team at Ninewells Hospital, ...
Airing Pain 51: At the Community Pain Management Programme
January 06 , 2014
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Practical insights and life-changing experiences at a community pain management course
[For a Welsh language transcript please click here.]
This edition has been funded by the Big Lottery Fund’s Awards for All Programme in Wales.
In the previous edition of Airing Pain we explored the pros and cons of taking ...
Airing Pain 41: Inside a Multidisciplinary Pain Team
April 10 , 2013
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A look at how experts from different backgrounds work together in multidisciplinary pain teams
This edition was funded by the Big Lottery Fund's Awards For All programme in Northern Ireland.
Presenter Paul Evans travels to Northern Ireland to meet a multidisciplinary pain team at Craigavon Area Hopsital, including doctors, ...
Airing Pain 32: Pain Management Programmes
May 03 , 2012
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What is a pain management programme? We find out more with the patients and staff on the Glasgow programme
This programme was funded by Pain Concern’s supporters and friends.
Airing Pain sheds some light on pain management programmes: what they are, and how they can help. Paul Evans pays a ...
Airing Pain 29: Fibromyalgia
March 28 , 2012
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Living with fibromyalgia, and the medical research offering hope for the future
This programme was funded by Pain Concern’s supporters and friends.
Fibromyalgia affects an estimated 2.7 million people in the UK, yet it is a condition which is poorly understood leaving the people with it often facing ignorance ...
Airing Pain 18: Growing Older with Pain
May 24 , 2011
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How to improve pain management for older people, and living with lower back pain
Pain has often been seen as an inevitable part of getting older. Airing Pain listened in to a panel of experts at a ‘Growing Old with Pain: Innovation, Creativity and Development’ conference in Edinburgh to hear ...
Airing Pain 15: Effective Communication: Patients and professionals
April 11 , 2011
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Better communication for doctors and patients and how to make the most of medical appointments
Communication is fundamental to the relationship between patient and healthcare professional. In this programme Airing Pain looks at this issue from both the patient and doctor’s point of view. Psychologist David Craig of Glasgow comments ...
Airing Pain 9: Relieving Pain: TENS and acupuncture
January 18 , 2011
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How acupuncture and TENS can help relieve pain, plus, a new web service aiming to educate health professionals about pain
We take a look at the role of the pain specialist nurse in the community, eavesdropping on two consultations given by Kathryn Nur at her nurse-led clinic at ...
Airing Pain 7: Exercise and Improving Mobility
December 21 , 2010
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Getting back into exercise and improving mobility. Plus, funding for pain services, and how can we best describe pain to a health professional?
Airing Pain visits the Frenchay Hospital Pain Clinic in Bristol where we hear from staff and patients. Paul Evans sits in on a consultation with physiotherapist ...
