Tag: chronic pain

PAE Pain Relief Patient study

Pain Alliance Europe is pleased to share an invitation to take part in the QSPainRelief-patientPREF study, an important initiative seeking to better understand the real-life experiences and preferences of people living with chronic pain, with the aim of contributing to improved future treatment options.

Participation in the questionnaire is entirely voluntary, all data are fully anonymised, and once the questionnaire is completed and analysed, the results will be shared with participating patients in an accessible and transparent way.

In this first questionnaire, you will be asked to:

  • Provide your informed consent to participate
  • Answer a few questions to confirm that you meet the study’s inclusion criteria
  • Share some basic identifying information

The questionnaire can be found here.…

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New NHS Resource for adults with chronic primary pain

Decision-making documentNHS 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.

Managing Persistent Pain e-learning resource

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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AI powered pain expert – Teesside University

Teesside universityTalk 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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Societal Inequalities and Disparities in Pain Management

inequalities in pain managementThe 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?

Listen now.

Taking part in this discussion:

  • Professor Jonathan Hill is the Director of Research for the School of Allied Health Professionals, and a Professor of Physiotherapy, in the Keele School of Medicine;
  • Dr Ama Kissie is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Ghent and a Clinical Psychologist;
  • Dr Whitney Scott is a clinical psychologist who lectures at Kings College London and is the research lead at the INPUT Pain Management Unit at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital.
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Managing children’s chronic non-cancer pain better

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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Chronic pain: What matters to you?

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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PCRMM Webinar – Live Well with Pain

PCRMM logoThis 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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