Tag: education
September is Pain Awareness Month!
September 11 , 2019
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The World Health Assembly (WHA) – a subsection of the World Health Organization (WHO) – has declared September Pain Awareness Month. This month is dedicated to raising public awareness and understanding of pain. Many organisations around the world contribute, including the U.S. Pain Foundation, the International Pain ...
Airing Pain 117: Patients as Research Partners
September 03 , 2019
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Involving patients in researching their own condition – it seems logical, so why is it not more common?
This edition was facilitated by the British Pain Society and recorded at their Annual Scientific Meeting 2019.
In this edition of Airing Pain, Paul Evans investigates the potential for patients to ...
Not all in the mind
July 07 , 2019
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It is unfortunately not uncommon for people in pain to be told by others (family, colleagues or healthcare professionals) that their pain must be ‘all in the mind’. Amanda C de C Williams gives some tips on how you can respond
There is a way of thinking that ...
September is Pain Awareness Month!
September 15 , 2021
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The theme for Pain Awareness Month 2021 is #PAINCOUNTS
The World Health Assembly (WHA) – a subsection of the World Health Organization (WHO) – has declared September Pain Awareness Month. This month is dedicated to raising public awareness and understanding of pain. Many organisations around the world contribute, ...
Chronic pain after surgery
July 10 , 2019
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What is chronic post-surgical pain? How common is it? How is it treated? Professor Julie Bruce & Professor Stephan Schug explain
What is chronic post-surgical pain?
Let’s start with some definitions – acute postoperative pain is the pain experienced immediately after an operation, usually lasting for days ...
Airing Pain 113: Translating Chronic Pain
May 08 , 2019
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Using creative writing to better represent the chronic pain experience
This edition is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Chronic pain often exists ways that cannot be seen. Due to the intangible and ambiguous nature of many chronic pain conditions that lack clear-cut causes and treatment, patients ...
Airing Pain 107: Easing Pain Appointments with the Navigator Tool
October 02 , 2018
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How Pain Concern’s Navigator Tool can help focus pain appointments
This edition has been funded by funded by the Health and Social Care Alliance and Edinburgh and Lothians Health Foundation.
In 2015 Pain Concern released its report, ‘Breaking barriers to self-management of chronic pain in primary care’, marking the ...
Pain Concern’s Navigator Tool Video Series
September 12 , 2018
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New research from Pain Concern offers the prospect of better care for those living with chronic pain.
The specially-developed Self-Management Navigator Tool encourages positive communication between people seeking to manage debilitating pain and their healthcare professionals.
Coming out of the Breaking Barriers to Chronic Pain in Primary Care research ...
Airing Pain 106: Pain Education For Doctors, Patients And Parents
September 04 , 2018
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What can be done to implement better pain education for doctors, patients and parents, and trusting your pharmacist when in doubt
This edition has been funded by Pain Concern supporter and cyclist Ade and The Sackler Trust.
According to the British Pain Society, doctors and other healthcare professionals (HCPs) ...
Airing Pain 101: Persistent Post-Operative Pain in Cancer Survivors
April 03 , 2018
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How cancer survivors can experience post-operative pain, and confronting the national issue of post-cancer treatment
This edition is funded by The Agnes Hunter Trust.
An ever-increasing cancer survivor rate means chronic pain associated with the condition and its treatment is growing. In the UK alone, cancer survivor rates have ...
Study finds CBT and pain education interventions improve pain in disadvantaged patients – Article
February 27 , 2018
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https://www.2minutemedicine.com/talk-therapy-modified-for-literacy-level-helps-ease-chronic-pain-for-disadvantaged-populations/ ...
Airing Pain 87: Vulvodynia
February 15 , 2017
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From diagnosis difficulties to defining gender: the effects of Vulvodynia on women today
This edition has been funded by a grant from the Women’s Fund For Scotland.
Vulvodynia is a nerve-based pain, often described as a burning or stinging sensation, which affects the vulva. 1 in 7 seven women ...