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NHS England has published a new decision support tool – Making decisions to help you live well with chronic primary pain.
The resource is intended as a decision aid for people aged 16 years and over with chronic primary pain to help you think about what options you might like to consider to help you live well with pain.
You can find the decision support tool here.
A new e-learning resource available to all healthcare professionals working across roles and sectors in Wales entitled “Managing Persistent Pain”. It has been by launched by Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW).
This package has been developed in collaboration by HEIW, primary care representatives and pharmacy colleagues together with the National Clinical Lead for Persistent Pain. The resource has been developed to encourage healthcare professionals to think more broadly about the management persistent pain rather than focusing on medication and interventions.…
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Talk to an artificial intelligence-powered expert about your pain.
A free interactive resource developed using cutting-edge technology to help millions living with persistent pain has been launched by Teesside University.
Academics from Teesside University’s Centre for Rehabilitation worked alongside artificial intelligence (AI) specialist StoryFile to develop a fully interactive digital version of internationally renowned pain management expert Pete Moore.
Described by StoryFile as a ‘conversational video’, AI Pete can interact with viewers, answer questions about persistent pain and how it can be managed, and share his first-hand experiences of living with it.…
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The latest Airing Pain Podcast, Societal Inequalities and Disparities in Pain Management, is available now.
This edition investigates the significant inequalities and disparities in treatment among primary care pain management services.
Does gender, ethnicity, disability and locality affect access and quality of pain care?
Taking part in this discussion:
Health researchers at the University of Stirling are calling for an overhaul of services for children living with chronic pain.
A new study, led by Dr Emma France and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research, found children are often left without effective pain management and struggle to access support from health services.
The research, which was carried out over a three-year period, is the first to specifically look at all the research about how children living with chronic pain and their families are experiencing pain and pain management.…
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The World Health Organisation have recently published a new guideline for non-surgical management of chronic primary low back pain in adults in both primary and community care settings.
Recommendations include physical, (one) pharmacological and psychological interventions.
This research aims to better understand what it means to live with and manage chronic pain, from everyone’s perspective. You now have the opportunity to say what matters to you by participating in this survey.
By answering the questionnaire, you can help overcome some of the current uncertainties and challenges of chronic pain management. Your knowledge will enable the researchers to collaborate closely with patients and patient organizations to develop better care that are meaningful for people living with chronic pain and their families.…
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This compelling webinar will be given by Frances Cole, from Live Well with Pain. In 1996, Frances and colleagues set up the first primary care based pain management programmes in the UK.
The outcomes found people with pain had significantly less anxiety, depression, improved physical health and, most of all, their confidence to cope with their lives despite the pain had doubled.
Frances’ webinar will shed more light on this and explain how they developed the resources and website and what is available for GPs and FCPs to use.…
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Pain Concern has announced their new podcast episode: Warwick Study of Mental Defeat in Chronic Pain.
Airing Pain #134 description:
What is mental defeat and does it have an impact on the experiences of those living with pain?
In this edition of Airing Pain, Paul Evans interviews the team at the Warwick Study of Mental Defeat in Chronic Pain (WITHIN Project) and research participants, as well as taking part in the study as a participant himself. The study, which runs until May 2023, is investigating how mental defeat can influence pain sensation, sleep patterns, social activity, physical activity and the general health of individuals who have chronic pain.…
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By anonymous writer for the EULAR Edgar Stene Prize essay competition, runner-up in the UK national competition
Pain is not something that anyone wants. Chronic illness will rob so much of a person that often, we are only able to see it as stealing from life. For myself, I will never seek to deny the anguish of the first years of my illness with rheumatoid arthritis. I was a shadow, hiding in the corners and trying to find a way out of myself.…
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