Tag: education
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 ...
Airing Pain 85: Pain in Europe
July 26 , 2016
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Why pain is a matter of life and death, the struggle for diagnosis and challenging misperceptions of palliative care
This edition is funded by Grünenthal.
Around 20 per cent of Europe’s adult population live with chronic pain and the consequences for individuals and society are devastating. In this edition ...
Airing Pain 80: Suffering is Optional
May 19 , 2016
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Improving treatment for veterans in pain and facing the challenges of civilian life
This edition has been funded by the MacRobert Trust and the Forces in Mind Trust.
‘Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.’ A motto tattooed onto the arm of a wounded veteran which, although easier said ...
Airing Pain 72: Breaking the Barriers to Managing Pain
October 14 , 2015
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Why self-management isn’t working and what we can do about it
This edition is part of a project funded by the Health and Social Care Alliance.
We know that supported self-management reduces the impact of chronic pain on daily life, but many people in pain feel they are not ...
New advice on osteoarthritis
June 11 , 2015
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Pain Concern responds to new NICE Quality Standard statements issued 11 June 2015
Heather Wallace, Chair of Pain Concern said:
“What these eight new QS statements underline is that for over 7 million people in the UK with osteoarthritis the burden of pain is still not being addressed and ...
Airing Pain 70: The Case for Pain Management
May 12 , 2015
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Movement as medicine and putting pain management centre stage
This edition has been funded by a grant from The Hospital Saturday Fund.
Make sure you stand up and do a few stretches after listening to this episode of Airing Pain. ‘Movement is medicine’ for people in pain, says consultant physiotherapist ...
Airing Pain 69: People not Patients
April 28 , 2015
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Sharing decisions and why pain management needs psychology
This edition has been funded by a grant from the Scottish Government.
Can a doctor ever be too sympathetic? Health psychologist Professor Tamar Pincus explains why this might be the case – patients with long term conditions can feel like they ...
Airing Pain 67: Biopsychosocial and spiritual?
March 31 , 2015
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The place of faith in pain relief, plus physiotherapy meets mental health, and educating doctors
This edition is funded by a donation from the residents at Falcon House, Edinburgh.
It’s well established that pain needs to be understood and treated as a biopsychosocial problem, but what about the spiritual ...
Airing Pain 64: Patients, Pills and Policies
February 17 , 2015
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Making pain patients’ voices heard across Europe and changing the prescribing culture
This edition has been funded by Grünenthal.
Almost 100 million EU citizens have chronic pain, but there is still much progress to be made in improving diagnosis and treatment. Pain Concern’s Rowena Jacobs attended the fifth Societal ...
IASP: Global year against Neuropathic Pain
November 04 , 2014
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The 2014-2015 Global Year Against Neuropathic Pain has launched! Sponsored by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), The Global Year Against Pain is a yearlong initiative designed to raise international awareness of pain. Each year, the campaign focuses on a different aspect of pain ...
