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Pain News - Back Copies

Pain News is the Society's quarterly newsletter, accessible online exclusively for Members, which provides information on a range of pain related issues. Contributions are encouraged from British Pain Society Member.

Back Copies
 

June 2024

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March 2024

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December 2023

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September 2023

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June 2023

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March 2023

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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

newsletter vol 12 2

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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June 2015
newsletter vol 12 2.

Contents:
Social inequality
Changing practice, challenging systems
Living with effects of thalidomide
Art of chronic pain management in animals


March 2015

newsletter vol 13 1

Contents:
Attentional bias modification
Power of invalidation in consultation in chronic pain
Bad back and silverbacks
Reflection on pain experience


December 2014

newsletter vol 12 2

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