Ten out of Ten for Pain Relief?
Dr Pete Gladwell specialises in clinical physiotherapy in the pain management service at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol. He tells us more about the effects and benefits of using TENS as part of your pain management regime. How does TENS work? TENS stands for transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation. The device has been around since the 1960s [...]
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Volunteers for a study of pain and movement
The University College London, Imperial College and Leicester University are conducting research on the role of movements in persistent pain. The study is taking advantage from recent technological developments in the field of computer gaming and aims at record people’s movements using special sensors. Please find below two downloadable documents with information and inclusion criteria, [...]
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Amitriptyline
Many people living with chronic pain are daunted by the prospect of long term or even permanent drug therapy. What are these drugs, are they safe and how do they work? Concerns such as these can stop people perservering with medicines that may offer a real life enhancing solution to their condition. In this article [...]
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Physio Footnotes- Improving Your Posture
IMPROVING YOUR POSTURE Liz MacLeod is a physiotherapist with a pain management programme. She looks at the importance of posture and explains why you need those curves. I am sure anyone who has a problem with pain, especially back or neck pain, will have been told by their doctor, physiotherapist, chiropractor or other health care [...]
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Airing Pain Programme 6- Pacing and Arthritis
In Programme 6, Paul Evans covers current affairs in Pain Management, including community pain management. David Laird provides advice on pacing, while Dr David Walsh provides information about Arthiritis. Ruth Day answers your questions, and Pete Moore provides his personal story. ——————————————————————————————————– Airing Pain Programme 6 was broadcast on 7/12/10 and produced and presented by [...]
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Pain Killers for Neuropathic Pain
I have nerve damage of my middle back. It causes constant burning and throbbing and makes my legs feel very weak. I find the pain unbearable. TENS and acupuncture haven’t helped. Osteopathy seems to aggravate the pain. Anything touching the area brings on a flare up. In the past I’ve tried various pain killers – Codydramol, Co-proxamol, Mepid, Acupan and Baclofen. I now take Zydol and Amitriptyline which offer some relief. Are there any new pain killers in the pipeline which might help the burning and throbbing?
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Aromatherapy for pain relief
Aromatherapy is defined as “treatment using odour”. Aromatherapists massage very diluted essential oils into the body using an ordinary “carrier oil” such as almond or jojoba or olive oil as the base and adding just a 3-5% tot of the essential oil. This mixture hardly smells at all, especially when the back is being massaged! [...]
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Airing Pain Programme 2 – Neuropathic Pain
In Programme 2, we heard Rachel Yorke talk about Neuropathic Pain, including cancer-related pain and shingles, with Dr Mark Turtle providing answers to your questions about living with, and managing pain. ——————————————————————————————– More Resources on Neuropathic Pain: The NICE guidelines on Neuropathic Pain (For Patients) can be found here Our leaflet on Neuropathic Pain An [...]
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Airing Pain Programme 1 – Introduction to Pain
In the first programme, presenter Lionel Kelleway introduces us to chronic pain and how to deal with it on a daily basis, and provides a taster of what is to come later in the series. Programme 1 features: Dr Beverley Collett- Introduction to Pain Dr Sherrill Snellgrove- Chronic Lower Back Pain Kiera Jones- Personal Story [...]
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