98: IASP Global Year for Excellence in Pain Education and the Benefit of Pain Management Programmes

In 2010, Airing Pain was conceived as a way for those with chronic pain, unable to leave their homes and attend support meetings, to easily access vital resources. Heather knew that this undertaking would require a skilled and experienced producer, so she reached out to Paul Evans. In this edition, Paul reminisces about the first phone call they had together, his eye-opening experience of realising just how large the pool of knowledge on pain was, and how the pain education sessions came to be. Paul then heads to Eastwood in the south of Glasgow to sit in on one of our sessions. He speaks to both pain education trainers and participants about their experiences how their relationship with pain has changed as a result. Contributors: Heather Wallace, Founder of Pain Concern Angela O’Neil, Pain Education Session Trainer Volunteer for NHS and Pain Concern Georgina McDonald, Pain Education Session Trainer Volunteer Britney, Pain Education Session Attendee Claire Mitchell, Clinical Health Psychology Student at Strathclyde University and Pain Education Session Trainer Volunteer Esther McFarlane, Pain Education Session Attendee and Ex Pain Management Nurse Lyn Watson, Clinical Nurse Specialist in Pain Management Programme for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. More information: Pain Concern’s Glasgow based Pain Education Sessions: painconcern.org.uk/how-we-help/pain-education-sessions-glasgow/.

Coming 12 June: This edition of Airing Pain focuses on the dilemmas and roadblocks that researchers encounter when researching pain and developing interventions, how they may overcome them, and why systematic reviews of research are so important. Our contributors for this edition are leaders in this field and they discuss some of the issues they have encountered whilst conducting their research into pain and how to treat it.  Interviews in this edition were recorded at the British Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting. Contributors: Professor Robert Brownstone is a Professor and Head of Neurosurgery at University College London. Dr Neil O’Connell is a Reader in the Physiotherapy Division of the Department of Health Sciences at Brunel University London. He is also a member of Cochrane's central editorial board.  Dr Kirsty Bannister is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience/Neuropharmacology at King’s College London.

What causes different types of face pain and what treatment is available? In this episode of Airing Pain we cover facial pain in its many forms, what treatments are available and how to cope better with your pain. Funded by The Hospital Saturday Fund. In collaboration with UCLH Royal National ENT & Eastman Dental Hospitals. The way our face feels and how we move it is a massive part of our identity. Feeling pain in the face, or not being able to use your face the way you want to, is not only a physical burden on the person suffering, but a heavy psychological load to cope with as well. Issues covered in this programme include: facial pain, unnecessary dental treatments, tooth ache, face and identity, management techniques, trigeminal neuralgia, neuropathic pain, carbamazepine, neurosurgery, pain management programmes, psychology and pain, temporomandibular disorder, burning mouth syndrome, persistent idiopathic facial pain, central sensitisation syndrome, physiotherapy, acceptance & commitment therapy Time Stamps: 01: 54 - Trigeminal neuralgia (TN): what is it and what does it feel like? Dr Joanna Zakrzewska explains. 06:27 - Dr Zakrzewska discusses what treatments are available for TN, including carbamazepine. 10:37 - How can neurosurgery help treat TN? 18:11 - Psychology Pain Management Programmes (PMPs) for sufferers of TN. 19:11 - Susie Holder on the psychological impact of face pain. 21:36 - Dr Roddy McMillan discusses temporomandibular disorder (TMD) as a source of face pain. 22:29 - Burning mouth syndrome and other types of face pain. 25:50 - Treatments available for other types of face pain. 28:30 - TMD and how it is different from other types of face pain (usually neuropathic in origin). 30:00 - What is central sensitisation syndrome? 32:21 - Pain management for chronic pain sufferers. 36:05 - Susie Holder explains what acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is. 44:07 - Obstacles to living well with pain, including the coronavirus pandemic. Contributors: Dr Joanna Zakrzewska, consultant in oral medicine specialising in trigeminal neuralgia at the Department or Oral Medicine and Facial Pain at the UCLH NHS Foundation Trust. Susie Holder, clinical psychologist on the facial pain team at the Royal ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals, UCLH NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Roddy McMillan, consultant in oral medicine and facial pain at the Royal ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals, UCLH NHS Foundation Trust. More Information: Pain Matters magazine issue 77: face the pain Airing Pain 12: Trigeminal Neuralgia, Pelvic Pain & Cannabis Airing Pain 115: Neuropathic pain 1 of 2, targeted Pain Management Programmes Airing Pain 116: Neuropathic pain 2 of 2, latest research My live well with pain Trigeminal Neuralgia Association UK

Coming 10 April: This edition of Airing Pain focuses on the treatment of pain, the importance of catering treatment to a person’s individual genetic makeup, and why addressing the psychological dimensions of pain is crucial in treating it effectively.   Our contributors for this edition discuss the ways in which the treatment of pain can be made more effective for people by incorporating personalised medicine or psychological treatments into a person’s care plan.  This edition will be funded by the Guy Fawkes Charitable Trust and was created with support from the British Pain Society. Contributors:  Professor Tony Dickenson, Professor of Neuropharmacology at University College London  Dr. Beth Darnall, PhD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. Director, Stanford Pain Relief Innovations Lab. Professor Irene Tracey, Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford and a Professor of Anaesthetic Neuroscience in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences.