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December 2022
 
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September 2022
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Content:
 How to set up an MHRA approved Cannabis Trial
 What motivates us?
 What can be done to prevent pain?
 Pain News roundup
 #PainAwarenessMonth
 Cristallo
June 2022
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Content:
 Finding out who your parents are
 Pain News update summer 2022
 Training in Mundfulness
 An untouched life
 Global variation in pain prevalence
 Fast track pathway for spinal radiofrequency
 Five stages of chronic illness
March 2022
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Content:
 Finding wellness in the midst of illness
 Healing the healers
 Pain in the New Year
 History of Intractable Pain Society
 Scottish Government Chronic Pain Framework 2021-22
 Self-efficacy as a predictor of outcome from pain interventions
 Invisible pain
 I felt a funeral in my brain
December 2021
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Content:
 Treating Pain NICE-ly Part 3
 Where have the clinics gone?
 Pain Services in Scotland
 Hisotry of Western Pain Philosophy
 PROMS at Kings
 White Dwarves and menopausal symptoms
 Pain has an element of blank
September 2021
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Content:
 Wind Song and Harmony
 A biological basis of CRPS and Fibromyalgia
 The BPS National Awareness Campaign
 Empathy
 How much pain in painful?
 History of the Philosophy & Ethics SIG
June 2021
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Content:
 Continuing conversations about treating pain NICE-ly
 Self Management of Pain
 Virtual Reality in Pain
 Losing my Mind
March 2021
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Content:
 NICE and pain medicine: not so nice?
 Pain: A neurological viewpoint
 Women in pain medicine
 Self management of chronic pain in a time of COVID
 Virtual medical consultations
December 2020
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Contents:
 Alcohol injections for knee pain
 Injections in fibromyalgia patients
 Bridging the gap between inpatient and outpatient chronic pain services
 Epiduroplasty in spinal pain
 The use of social media by chronic pain patients
 There is a hole in my boat 
September 2020
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Contents:
 The COVID-19 issue
June 2020
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Contents:
 Patients and patience in the time of Corona
 Curing and healing
 Is cannabis useful for pain?
 Does religious belief help pain and suffering?
 Encountering a history of child abuse in a pain clinic
 How do we manage suicidal patients?
March 2020
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Content:
 Different professional views of pain in ICD-11
 A view of pain and suffering in Oxton
 Attending a viewing: sculpture and mental pain
 Viewing the elephant in the room about chronic post surgical pain
 Reviewing post stroke pain
 Reviewing a childhood and development of pain
  
December 2019
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Content:
 How effective is the teaching of pain medicine?
 Early access to pain relief for palliative care patients
 Current practice of sedation for pain procedure
 Ultrasound guided dry needling for pain
 How aware are we of clinical guidelines that affect our work?
 Social deprevation and complications from opioid and cannabis therrapy
September 2019
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Content:
 Death of the little brain
 Pain management efficacy
 Pain, suffering and death in health professionals
 Procedures for discogenic pain
 Real world trial of cannabis for sleep
 Pain and sleep
June 2019
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Content:
 Cannabis in Canada, what can their experience teach us?
 The psychological origins of CRPS
 Treating patients with persistent pain and addiction
 Pain and suffering and the duty of care
 How not to be a doctor
March 2019
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Content:
 Is pain a symptom or sign?
 Understanding pain in Veterans
 Pain and loneliness
 Advances in peripheral neuromodulation
 How to fix the NHS
 Assessing pain in drug dependent patients
  
December 2018
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September 2018
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Content:
 A role for cannabis in pain?
 Is there a future for pain physicians?
 Consenting in pain medicine
 Will we ever be able to measure pain?
June 2018
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Content:
 Focus on pain research day
 Consent in pain medicine
 Increasing access to psychological services (IAPT) and pain services
March 2018
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Content:
 Opioids, to be or not to be
 Living to die: deep acceptance
 Coming alive at last
 Conversation about e-pain 
December 2017
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Content:
 Twitterchat as educational tool
 Estimating others pain intensity, to what extend do clinicians reply on nonverbal behaviours?
 Anaesthetists view of managing children's pain post-surgery
September 2017
Content:
 Pain Apps - are they useful?
 Pelvic Pain support network
 Facult of Pain Medicine History
 A rare case of Facioscapulohumeral syndrome (FSHS) with widespread chronic pain
June 2017
Content:
 Transition - not just a paediatric issue
 Opioid prescribing guidelines
 MDT approach to manage sickle cell disease
  
March 2017
December 2016
Content:
 To heal or not to heal
 New perspective on placebo
 Apps, Bots and Wearables: The future is here at present
 Educating secondary school students about peadiatric chronic pain
 Misuse of gabapentinoids
September 2016
Contents:
 A different perspective on pain
 Are men difficult to engage in pain self managment?
 Oxycodone in children
 Training on pain management for neonates, children and young people
June 2016

 Contents:
 Management of pain in people with dementia in the hospital
 Some ethical dilemmas
 Virtuous patient
 Patient reported outcome measures
March 2016
Contents:
 Social media for professionals in Pain Medicine
 Impact of dysmenorrhea
 The diagnosis – shades of grey
 The tyranny of hidden waiting list
December 2015
Contents:
 Can drawings assist us in understanding
 children’s pain better?
 Breaking the silence – FGM and Chronic pain
 Language specific PMP
 Social Ecology where politics meets pain
September 2015
Contents:
 Third sector
 It’s all in your head
 Smartphone technology and yoga in pain management
 Role of kinesiology in pain management
 Consent for chronic post surgical pain
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Contents:
 Social inequality
 Changing practice, challenging systems
 Living with effects of thalidomide
 Art of chronic pain management in animals
March 2015
Contents:
 Attentional bias modification
 Power of invalidation in consultation in chronic pain
 Bad back and silverbacks
 Reflection on pain experience
December 2014
Contents:
 Things they don’t tell you about depression
 Pain medicine training - a trainee’s perspective
 Can you feel my pain?
 Should placebos have a role in clinical practice?
 New BPS Trading company announced
September 2014
Contents:
 Social Media – benign influence or spin?
 Changing attitude towards analgesics
 Where is your pain?
 Teams in Pain Management
 Spotlight - Antony Chuter
June 2014
Contents:
 Prescription opioid and driving
 Tramadol is classified
 Do nurses care?
 Painful Truth
 Spotlight - Jenny Nicholas
March 2014
Contents:
 SIGN Guidelines
 Picturing Pain
 Good-Bye Pain
 Yorkshire Health Study
December 2013
Contents:
 Fit for work team
 Return to work
 Laughing the pain away
 Why not a career in pain medicine
 Changing the culture of pain management
September 2013
Contents:
 Spice analgesia
 Saving starfish
 Antibiotics for back pain
 Harnessing patient power
June 2013
Contents:
 Bournemouth ASM 2013
 Targets in healthcare
 Difficult patients
 Jumbulance
March 2013
Contents: 
 Octave analgesia
 National Pain Audit launch
 Trust me, I’m a patient
 Numbers needed to heal
December 2012
Contents:
 Special Issue on Pain Patient Pathways
September 2012
Contents: 
 Physician, heal thyself
 Mindfulness – the Art of Presence
 Pain Patient Pathways implementation
 Report of the First English Pain Summit
 Online Pain Management Programme
 Interdisciplinary nature of the PMPs
June 2012
Contents: 
 Mask: Mirror: Membrane
 Time to listen pain
 Books on prescription
 PMP self-management
 NHS reforms and pain services
 Engagement in the new health service
March 2012
Contents: 
 Pain Summit report
 ASM Liverpool
 Does diagnosis promote disability?
 Social media and pain
 Knitting and pain
 Spinal steroid injections
 Cost-effectiveness of pain clinic
 
                
 
                                     
            
         
            
         
            
        


















































