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Airing Pain
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Airing Pain is the online radio programme and podcast from Pain Concern. Each edition we bring together people with chronic pain and top specialists to talk about resources that can help. You can listen to Airing Pain every Tuesday via Able Radio, with all episodes available on demand here and on our website. Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favourite podcast app to get the latest podcasts delivered straight to your mobile or tablet. We welcome feedback - rate on your device or fill in our survey. Pain Concern is a charity registered in Scotland SC023559.
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155: AI, technology & innovation
‘If I have seen further, it's by standing on the shoulders of giants.’ So wrote Isaac Newton to fellow scientist Robert Hooke back in 1675. The two didn't always agree, but the sentiment, that for the most part research and discovery is built on the work of those who came before, is as true today...
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154: Early traumatic experiences
'The last injury report by Save the Children stated 50,000 casualties in children from 2020 to 2025, and we think that's an underestimation…' Can mental and physical trauma in childhood lead to a lifetime of pain? ‘If you’re exposed to things like abuse, neglect and various household challenges,...
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153: Can nature and mindfulness help pain?
This episode is produced in partnership with the British Pain Society. The interview with Sam Hughes was recorded at their 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting. Can nature and mindfulness help pain? This episode of Airing Pain looks at the interplay between nature and mindfulness, and how they can…
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152: How is pain management changing?
This episode is produced in partnership with the British Pain Society. These interviews were recorded at their 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting. The 2026 Annual Scientific Meeting is just weeks away – register here. Amongst other things, here we tackle the taboo subject of acute period pain,...
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How neurodivergent people experience pain
‘if you’re treating people in pain, you’re treating autistic people in pain’ Do neurodivergent people experience pain differently? The simple answer – and the slightly more complicated one Why you, or your patients, aren’t recovering Building relationships across neurotypes Pain thresholds, pain...
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151: How do social factors impact pain?
This episode of Airing Pain explores how social factors impact the onset, experience and treatment of pain. …understanding how things like your thoughts, your fears, your social interactions influence your biology can be really, really powerful… …you're not just dealing with the pain, you're...
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150: How pain education is changing lives
'Now I’m in control of the pain instead of the pain being in control of me' This episode explores the transformative impacts of pain education classes. Featuring excerpts from a live education session, here we look at how a brief, free course—delivered by trained volunteers with lived…
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149: Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity
Airing Pain #149: Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity This edition of Airing Pain looks at the research into why pain persists, how we can identify people at risk and whether we could prevent it happening. In this episode: How does acute short-term pain turn into chronic,...
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Trail - Airing Pain 149: Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity
This edition of Airing Pain focuses on advances in understanding and managing chronic pain, from neuroimmune mechanisms to new diagnostic and treatment approaches. In this trailer, listen to excerpts from the full program on: how does acute, short term pain turn into chronic, persistent pain? Why...
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148: Trail - Airing Pain - Exploring the links between hypermobility and neurodivergence
Full Episode available: 5/3/2025 This Airing Pain episode explores how neurodivergent individuals experience pain, potential links to hypermobility, and the need for better education to support conditions like autism and ADHD. Neurodiversity refers to the different ways a person’s brain processes...
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Airing Pain Short - Interview with Jason Wilsher-Mills
Artist Jason Wilsher-Mills has lived with pain and chronic polyneuropathy since he was a child. In this interview he talks about his recent exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London called "Jason and the Adventure of the 254"
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Airing Pain - Interview with Susan Birth
"Susan Birth, Chief Executive of Ehlers-Danlos Support UK, explores the challenges faced by individuals with Ehlers-Danlos syndromes and hypermobility spectrum disorders, touching on symptom management, NHS navigation, and promising new research."
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Airing Pain - Interview with Simon Harvey
"Simon Harvey, General Manager of Able in South Wales, discusses supporting adults with learning disabilities, autism, and neurodivergent conditions. He reflects on the podcast's relevance for families and individuals, sharing personal insights about pain management and raising autistic children...
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148: Exploring the links between hypermobility and neurodivergence
Airing Pain 148: Links between hypermobility and neurodivergence Released on: 5/3/2025 This Airing Pain episode explores how neurodivergent individuals experience pain, potential links to hypermobility, and the need for better education to support conditions like autism and ADHD. Neurodiversity...
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147: Person-Centred Care
This episode of Airing Pain focuses on person-centred care. Person-centred care is based on the individual rather than on a generic group of patients. In this episode: Vicky Sandy-Davis, Lead Nurse of Independent Health and Social Care, talks about the importance of recognizing the value of...
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146: Irritable Bowel Syndrome & Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Airing Pain 146: Irritable Bowel Syndrome & Inflammatory Bowel Disease This edition of Airing Pain focuses on two conditions affecting the gut: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Both affect the digestive system, and both cause pain. In this episode we learn…
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Trail - Airing Pain 146: Irritable Bowel Syndrome & Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Coming 9th October: This edition of Airing Pain focuses on Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) – two outwardly similar sounding conditions, but the devil is in the details. Our contributors are experts on visceral pain, gastrointestinal disease, and psychological...
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145: Rethinking Pain: Pain Management in the Community
Airing Pain 145 Rethinking Pain: Pain Management in the Community This edition of Airing Pain centres on rethinking the traditional clinician-patient relationship in pain management and exploring alternative approaches to bringing pain management back into the community. Dr Barbara Phipps, GP and...
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Trail - Airing Pain 145: Rethinking Pain: Pain in the Community
Coming 14th August: This edition of Airing Pain centres on rethinking the traditional clinician-patient relationship in pain management and exploring alternative approaches to bringing pain management back into the community. Is the 1-to-1 doctor-patient consultation the best we can do? How can…
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144: Dilemmas in Pain Research
Airing Pain 144: Dilemmas in Pain Research This episode of Airing Pain focuses on the challenges that researchers must overcome when researching pain and developing new treatment approaches. Many questions remain unanswered in the field of pain research. For example, we might know that a…
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Trail - Airing Pain 144: Dilemmas in Pain Research
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...
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143: Personalised Medicine and Empowered Pain Relief
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. The process of finding a medication or treatment that works…
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Trail - Airing Pain 143: Personalised Medicine and Empowered Pain Relief
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...
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142: Societal Inequalities and Disparities in Pain Management
Pain Concern would like to remind listeners that the topic of chronic pain can be uncomfortable for those with lived experience of chronic pain. Please read the description for information about this edition's content. In a 2020 US study, it was found that ‘Implicit bias remains a contributor to...
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141: Living with Childhood and Young Adult Cancer
This edition of Airing Pain sheds light on the unique challenges of living with cancer as a child or young adult, and the later impacts of the cancer treatment they underwent during the critical formative years. Airing Pain speaks to experts on the longitudinal impacts of cancer for these age...
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140: Childhood Pain - Adverse Experiences and Parental Relationships
This edition of Airing Pain is on the topic of early childhood experiences. (Content warning: includes abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction) The World Health Organisation states that ‘adverse childhood experiences (ACE) can have lifelong consequences on a person’s health, and well-being, and...
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139: Living With Persistent Pain in Wales 2023
This edition of Airing Pain was recorded at the Living Well with Persistent Pain in Wales conference during Pain Awareness Month in September 2023. The topic of the conference was the launch of the revised Persistent Pain guidance first published in 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how we...
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138: Dance, Chronic Pain and Self-Compassion
Is self-compassion a trait or a state of being? This edition is inspired by findings that suggest stronger self-compassion is associated with reduced impact of chronic pain. Self-compassion, in this sense, is the ability to respond to pain and difficulties with kindness and openness rather than...
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137: Pharmacists and Chronic Pain: How to Prescribe and De-prescribe Safely
This edition of Airing Pain was prompted by the 2022 NICE Guidelines which followed a Public Health England report (2019) looking at medicines associated with dependence and withdrawal. Read transcript This new legislation follows increased concerns in high levels of prescribing. This edition...
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136: The Future of Pain Management
What’s around the corner? This edition of Airing Pain platforms four internationally recognised clinicians from the British Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting Recently healthcare technology and innovation has seen a rapid acceleration, particularly following disruption caused by the Covid 19...
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135: Pain Management during the Covid-19 Pandemic – Lessons Learnt
This edition of Airing Pain examines how Covid-19 has impacted on the relationship between patient and healthcare professional. In the two or so years of living with Covid-19, the face-to-face relationship between doctors and patients was one of the first casualties. With restrictions relaxed…
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134: Warwick Study of Mental Defeat
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...
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133: Sharing Pain - How Group Consultations Can Help Long COVID And Other Conditions
How the symptoms of long COVID are being managed using group consultations and the many things long COVID has in common with other long-term conditions. Now that COVID has become a part of our day-to-day lives, so too has long COVID. So, with so much money now being directed towards researching...
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132: When Children Have Arthritis
How do you identify illness in young children and coping as a family. This Airing Pain was recorded at the Scottish Network for Arthritis in Children SNAC’s 2022 Family Weekend at Crieff Hydro, which brings together families recently affected by juvenile idiopathic arthritis and some of the...
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131: Face Pain, Treatment & Management
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…
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130: Pain Management Programmes & the Health Unlocked Forum
Scotland’s Pain Management Programmes (PMPs) and what support is available after graduating. This edition of Airing Pain has been funded by a grant from the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland Self Management Fund administered on behalf of the Scottish Government. What do you know about Pain...
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129: Shingles & Post Herpetic Neuralgia (PHN)
Determining what Shingles really is and why vaccine uptake is so low? This edition of Airing Pain has been funded by a grant from The RS Macdonald Charitable Trust and The Stafford Trust What exactly is Shingles? We often hear it thrown into conversation alongside a virus many of us have already...
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128: Back Pain & Pain from a Global Perspective with the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)
Looking into one of the most globally prevalent types of pain, back pain, and exploring different cultural attitudes towards pain. This edition of Airing Pain was created in association with the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) and has been funded by the Plum Trust. Back…
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127: Pain Management & Taking the Sting Out the Tail of Neuropathic Pain
This edition of Airing Pain has been funded by educational grants from The R. S. Macdonald Charitable Trust and The Stafford Trust. Do you, someone you care for or perhaps your patients, suffer from persistent burning or gnawing pain? Many don’t know that often, neuropathic pain presents as a...
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126: Domestic Violence and Chronic Pain
This edition has been funded by the Women’s Fund for Scotland. The Coronavirus pandemic has been long and isolating for everyone, but particularly for those who experience abuse. The pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have seen an increase in the level and severity of domestic abuse. In this…
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125: Opioid-Induced Constipation
This edition has been supported with a grant from Kyowa Kirin donated for this purpose. While opioids are seen as an effective treatment method for acute pain, there is an increasing debate on the efficacy of opioids when treating chronic pain conditions. One of the most common side effects of...
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124: Diabetic Neuropathy
This edition has been supported by a grant from The Champ Trust and Foundation Scotland. According to the most recent Scottish Diabetes Survey in 2018, there are an estimated 304,000 people living with a diagnosis of diabetes in Scotland, around 5% of the population. A long-term effect of…
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123: Opioids and Chronic Pain
This edition has been supported by a grant from Kyowa Kirin. The opioid crisis reached its peak in the United States in 2017, where addiction and overprescription have led to 218,000 deaths from prescription overdoses between the years of 1999 and 2017. The side effects of opioids can affect the...
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122: The Many Faces of Research
This editionhas been supported with a grant from The Mirianog Trust donated for this purpose. It was recorded at the end of April 2020, the second month of the UK’s Covid-19 lockdown. All interviews were recorded prior to the crisis. As research for a Covid-19 vaccine is a priority for the...
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121: Living with Persistent Pain in Wales
This edition has been partially funded by an educational grant from Grünenthal Limited, donated for this purpose. In April 2019, the Minister for Health and Social Services in Wales launched the guidance document Living with Persistent Pain in Wales. Later, in December, the Chronic Pain Policy...
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120: Osteoporosis
This edition has been supported by a grant from The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust. Osteoporosis is a largely ignored condition that affects over 3 million people in the UK, with women being more at risk; a condition which, because the symptoms are difficult to notice by patients, is often…
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119: Experts by Experience: Working together in pain management programmes
This edition has been supported by a grant from the Plum Trust. In September, the British Pain Society’s special interest group on pain management programmes held their annual conference. A workshop entitled ‘Experts by Experience – working together in Pain Management Programmes’ was run in...
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118: Pain Management in Young People
In this edition of Airing Pain, Paul Evans looks at the issues concerning pain amongst adolescents, including the impact on parents. First-off, Paul speaks to Dr Jeremy Gauntlet-Gilbert, principal clinical psychologist at the Bath Centre for Pain Services, to talk about the 'end of the road'...
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117: Patients as Research Partners
This edition was facilitated by the British Pain Society and recorded at their Annual Scientific Meeting 2019. In this edition of Airing Pain, Paul Evans investigates the potential for patients to play an integral role in research, alongside the professionals. Through discussions with patients…
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Airing Pain is the online radio programme and podcast from Pain Concern.
Each edition we bring together people with chronic pain and top specialists to talk about resources that can help.
You can listen to Airing Pain every Tuesday via Able Radio, with all episodes available on demand here and on our website.
Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favourite podcast app to get the latest podcasts delivered straight to your mobile or tablet.
We welcome feedback - rate on your device or fill in our survey.
Pain Concern is a charity registered in Scotland SC023559.
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