TRANSITIONAL PAIN SERVICE

WELCOME

Dear Reader, I’m Beth, a voluntary editorial assistant

MESSAGE FROM OUR GUEST EDITORS

The outpatient pain service in Ayrshire & Arran are delighted to have been asked to guest-edit this edition of Pain Matters

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BRITISH PAIN SOCIETY We’d like to say thank-you

A PAIN MANAGEMENT APPROACH TO OPIOIDS

Gillian Pettigrew takes us through a recent development in the attitude towards opioids

A WHEELY MEMORABLE WEEK IN TEES VALLEY FOR FLIPPIN’ PAIN!

From 7-12 May, a group of cyclists travelled

FROM PERSISTENT PAIN TO PASSION PROJECT

“Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change” – Frida Kahlo

HOW A MEDICAL PRACTICE CHANGED ITS APPROACH TO PAIN

Calderside Medical Practice in Lanarkshire has moved from

SUPPORT THAT LOOKS AT THE WHOLE PERSON

Health is impacted by a wide range of factors that are not always medical, including isolation, money worries, housing issues, self-management, work, and lifestyle. Leeanne Killen gives an insight into the workings and benefits of community link workers

Will occupational therapy help me?

The occupational therapist service based in primary care

PUTTING PEOPLE LIVING WITH PAIN AT THE HEART OF THE PROGRAMME

Clare Smith and Lynsey Wilson describe how Ayrshire and Arran pain management service redesigned the pain management programme

THE FUTURE OF PAIN MANAGEMENT

After listening to edition 136 of Airing Pain, Johura Chowdhury shares her reflections

REVIEWS

PAIN

" IN YOUR OWN WORDS "

POST-HERPETIC NEURALGIA I was very pleased to see

North British Pain Association

The association’s spring scientific meeting was held on

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