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Raising money for Maggie’s centres!
Scotlands lead clinician, Dr Steve Gilbert is raising funds for Maggie’s centres by doing a sponsored cycle between Glasgow and Edinburgh on the 11th of September. Maggie’s Centres are for people with cancer, helping to empower them to live through and beyond their diagnosis. They are places where people are welcome whenever they need help [...]
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The BIG 50
Pain Concern is in the process of putting together the 5oth issue of our Pain Matters Magazine. This magazine is due out around 16th September if your interested in getting this magazine why not subscribe. Click here to go to our Subscribe page. The Big 50 will include stories such as Pain in the 3rd [...]
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Neuropathic Pain
People living with, and professionals working with Neuropathic Pain are invited to take part in a research survey. This survey is designed to help understand how people make sense of neuropathic pain. Neuropathic pain can be difficult to understand and diagnose and therefore the process of identifying and labelling it can be lengthy and complicated. [...]
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Pain Concern Letter Competition
Pain Concern is having a Competition! We include letters in each of our quarterly magazine and highlight one as our “Best letter”. For our next edition of the Pain Matters magazine we are giving a prize to the writer of our Best Letter. The Special Mystery prize is something that anyone interested in pain would [...]
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A Clinical Trial for Post Herpetic Neuralgia
Do you suffer from Post Shingles Pain? If you do then have a look at this clinical trial researching herpetic neuralgia.
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Chronic Pain App
Chronica is an award winning pain management application – created by someone living with chronic pain. This application gives a convenient & comprehensive way to record your pain levels, medications, treatments and much more. Chronica is clearly designed, flexible and allows you to record your information quickly and accurately – information that can be compared [...]
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Trigeminal Neuralgia Study Day
The Trigaminal Neuralgia Association are arranging a study day for professionals at Grand Connaught Rooms 61-65 Great Queen Street London WC2B 5DA “This Study Day will run alongside the TNA’s one-day conference for trigeminal neuralgia patients and their carers. It will thus provide attendees with an opportunity to hear first-hand from sufferers, and determine their [...]
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Societal Impact of Pain Meeting
Chris Hughes, one of Pain Concern’s Pain Ambassadors, attended a symposium in Brussels on the Societal Impact of Pain .The meeting was hosted by the EFIC, which is an umbrella group of national pain societies in Europe, and was supported by the German drug firm Grünenthal. There were approximately 350 delegates, made up of a mix of [...]
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Chronic Pain Early Day Motion
Pain Concern would like to alert you to a parliamentary motion (Early Day Motion) which if put through would mean parliamentary debate on better treatment for pain, education about chronic pain conditions and recognition of chronic pain as a condition in its own right. For an Early Day Motion to be put through to debate [...]
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Pain Concern’s fundraising walk
Arthur’s Seat Sunrise Walk Pain Concern has set the date for our fundraising walk round Arthur’s Seat!All funds raised by this walk will go towards continuing the Airing Pain series and Airing Pain’s sister publications in the Pain Matters magazine and here on the website. The walk will take place at 6.30am on the 23rd [...]
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