Airing Pain is a series of podcasts for people living in pain. Programmes bring together the top pain specialists in the country to talk about the issues that matter. Click the title of each programme for detailed information about the programme and for a link to download it.
The second series launches 1st November 2011. Presenter and producer Paul Harvard Evans returns with more valuable information on living with chronic pain, the conditions that cause it, and how to manage it. Shows are focused on educating the medical community, as well as informing and empowering individuals living with chronic pain.
Shows will look at different topics including the benefits of family therapy; the political and economic factors of pain; and headache.
Shows are broadcast fortnightly on Tuesday and Sunday evenings at 8pm on www.ableradio.com.
All programmes previously broadcast are available as free podcasts in the posts below or from the Able Radio website, click here.
In show 23 Paul Evans investigates limb pain, covering Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), limb pain following injury and surgery and phantom limb pain. He is joined by Sunny Boshoff who suffered a crushing injury to her hand and now has CRPS. Also appearing are Dr Bill Mc Rae and Dr Joan Hester who discuss [...]
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In show 4 Paul Harvard Evans highlights the role of body language and facial expressions in understanding those in pain. When other forms of expression are limited, due to learning difficulties for example, this assumes even greater importance. Evans highlights this in relation to a pilot project in East Kent, where a training pack for [...]
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In show 3 Paul Harvard Evans highlights the success of NHS Highland’s chronic pain services. Those that have a long term condition and live in remote areas of the Highlands face even greater challenges in receiving adequate treatment. This service has significantly increased the number of patients treated and allowed medical professionals to be much [...]
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In show 2 Paul Harvard Evans highlights the long-term economic and societal costs of insufficient treatment for people with chronic pain.
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The first episode of series two appreciates the intrusion of pain upon family life, and the strains it places on all personal relationships. Paul Evans highlights how contact with a family therapist can negotiate these relationships and help re-establish control.
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Programme 18 focuses on the “Growing Old with Pain” conference held earlier this year. During which a board of medical professionals answered questions raised by patients, professionals and charitable bodies alike. The clear message throughout is that pain is not an inevitable part of ageing, and should not be considered a condition that must be [...]
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In programme 17 Paul Evans attends the launch of the British Pain Society’s primary and community care special interest group. Prof Richard Langford discusses the aims of this special interest group and how these will be achieved to improve pain services. GP, Dr Martin Johnson answers the question “Why has pain only now been granted [...]
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The theme of programme 16 is that “if I have rocks in my way, I shall keep them all: one day I will build a castle”. Paul Evans talks to patients and professionals at Astley Ainslie Hospital in Edinburgh to hear their uplifting approaches to pain management. The programme focuses on the way that mind [...]
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In programme 15, Paul Evans speaks to psychologist David Craig of Glasgow, who comments on his communication skills training DVD for chronic pain professionals. GP Mark Ritchie explains how depression and chronic pain can be linked, and gives advice on how patients can prepare for medical consultations, using the memory aid: Ideas, Concerns, and Expectations. [...]
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In Programme 14, Paul Evans meets Edith Mowatt and learns of how she has come to manage the trials of nerve root pain. Dr Steve Gilbert looks into the use of spinal cord stimulators as a way of coping, a therapy that is also used in the treatment of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. Dr Candy [...]
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