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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? - ...

Pain Matters 76 – Out Today

September 07 , 2020
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Our new issue, Pain Matters 76, is published today, Monday 7 September What do we mean when we talk about pain? In this edition of Pain Matters, we have invited the members of the Flippin’ Pain™ campaign to guest-edit a pain neuroscience education special. A public health campaign delivered by Connect ...

Airing Pain 68: The Brain and the Genes

April 14 , 2015
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The science behind pain and its treatment, and why understanding it matters This edition has been funded by a grant from the Scottish Government. If someone steps on your toe, your toe hurts – simple as that, right? Wrong! Professor Rolf-Detlef Treede explains how the brain and nervous system ...

Airing Pain 37: What is Pain?

July 27 , 2012
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What pain is, and why understanding your pain is important In this programme Professor Lorimer Moseley, Professor of Clinical Neurosciences and Chair in Physiotherapy at the University of South Australia, explains the relationship between chronic pain and the brain, incorporating personal stories which illuminate this relationship. The importance ...

Airing Pain 31: Brain Imaging: Looking into your pain

April 18 , 2012
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How pain can be seen in the brain, and the research showing pain to be a condition in its own right This programme was funded by Pain Concern’s supporters and friends. In this programme we feature two areas of research which are helping in the understanding of pain. Professor Karen ...