The new edition of Airing Pain explores the relationship between childhood trauma and chronic pain in adolescence and adulthood. Episode 140 is about how early childhood experiences and trauma in formative years can cause changes on a structural and functional level in the brain that can predispose young people to pain alongside a wide range of health conditions.
It is now available to listen to here.
The full transcript is available online to download, as well as a captioned video on Youtube.
The episode features:
– Dr Katie Birnie, Clinical Psychologist at the University of Calgary;
– Professor Lesley Colvin, Project Lead at Consortium Against Pain InEquality (CAPE) and Professor of Pain Medicine at the University of Dundee, and consultant in pain services;
– Jen Ford, DRAP Pain Physio & Therapy Lead at Bath Centre for Pain Services & Bristol Paediatric Pain;
– Professor Tim Hales, Project Lead at CAPE and a non-clinical Professor of anaesthesia at the University of Dundee, and Dr Lauren Heathcote, Senior Lecturer in health psychology at Kings College London.