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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Brain Awareness Week
It is Brain Awareness week from the 12th until the 18th of March. Brain Awareness Week (BAW) is the global campaign to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research. For more information about the events taking place in the UK, check out the calendar of events offered around the country - click [...]
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Nerve Pain
Professor Turo Nurmikko, Consultant in Pain Relief at The Pain Relief Foundation’s Pain Research Institute, tells us about nerve pain and the role of anticonvulsants. To detect pain, our bodies are equipped with a highly specialised network consisting of several miles of nerves that send messages to the brain when an injury occurs or is [...]
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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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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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