Tag: pain management

Read about Lindsay McLean's experience of a pain management programme from the perspective of a patient, and how it affected her life.

Calderside Medical Practice in Lanarkshire has moved from treating persistent pain as a symptom that needs a drug to treating it as a long-term condition that can be managed with information and support. Since changing their approach in 2016 they have registered around 300 patients with pain ...

Author Leeanne Killen is Community Link Worker/Primary Care Development Manager, North Ayrshire Health & Social Care Partnership. Health is impacted by a wide range of factors that are not always medical, including isolation, money worries, housing issues, self-management, work, and lifestyle. Leeanne Killen gives an insight into ...

Dr Mick Serpell, Consultant in Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine for Greater Glasgow & Clyde NHS Let me explain, I work with patients who have chronic pain. My journey as a novice in the triathlon world required me to make changes in my beliefs and behaviours. Changes very similar ...

Today the Faculty of Pain Medicine releases their Four Nation Strategy for Pain Management. Pain Concern fully endorses this strategy and we encourage you to learn more about it, and how it could shape the way care is delivered for people with pain, at 👉 https://fpm.ac.uk/four-nation-strategy-pain-management ...

This is an article by Julie Sinclair and Salma Angelinetta and was included in the February 2022 issue of Pain Press — The Pain Matters Supplement. Although it’s not as common as the more generic ‘chronic pain’, neuropathic pain is thought to affect up to 8% of the population in the ...

Get your copy now! Inside issue 78: Our guest editors come from the North Bristol NHS Trust, where, in the past ten years, Nick Ambler and his team have tried hard to create a more personalised form of pain management and support. During the Covid-19 pandemic, this was obviously ...

    Our new issue, Pain Matters 79, is released today, Monday 22nd November 2021 What do we mean when we talk about pain? Inside issue 79: The Global Alliance of Partners for Pain Advocacy (GAPPA) was started by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) in 2018. IASP is the leading ...

How pain’s unpredictability can affect interpersonal relationships, and recognising help when it appears To listen to this programme, please click here. Prefer a PDF?Download This edition of Airing Pain is funded by the JTH Charitable Trust and the Persula Foundation. With between one third and one half of people living with chronic ...