Airing Pain

150: Pain Education Classes: Learn to live well with pain

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pain Education Classes – Learn to live well with pain  “A life-changing experience” – Lindsay McLean, Airing Pain #150 This episode of Ai...

150: Trail - Airing Pain 150: Pain Education Classes - Learn to live well with pain

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

149: Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Airing Pain #149: Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity This edition of Airing Pain looks at the research into why pain persis...

Trail - Airing Pain 149: Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity

16 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This edition of Airing Pain focuses on advances in understanding and managing chronic pain, from neuroimmune mechanisms to new diagnostic and treatme...

148: Trail - Airing Pain - Exploring the links between hypermobility and neurodivergence

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Full Episode available: 5/3/2025 This Airing Pain episode explores how neurodivergent individuals experience pain, potential links to hypermobility,...

Airing Pain Short - Interview with Jason Wilsher-Mills

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Artist Jason Wilsher-Mills has lived with pain and chronic polyneuropathy since he was a child. In this interview he talks about his recent exhibition...

Airing Pain - Interview with Susan Birth

30 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Susan Birth, Chief Executive of Ehlers-Danlos Support UK, explores the challenges faced by individuals with Ehlers-Danlos syndromes and hypermobility...

Airing Pain - Interview with Simon Harvey

30 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Simon Harvey, General Manager of Able in South Wales, discusses supporting adults with learning disabilities, autism, and neurodivergent conditions. ...

148: Exploring the links between hypermobility and neurodivergence

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

 Airing Pain 148: Links between hypermobility and neurodivergence Released on: 5/3/2025 This Airing Pain episode explores how neurodivergent individ...

147: Person-Centred Care

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of Airing Pain focuses on person-centred care. Person-centred care is based on the individual rather than on a generic group of patients....

146: Irritable Bowel Syndrome & Inflammatory Bowel Disease

09 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Airing Pain 146: Irritable Bowel Syndrome & Inflammatory Bowel Disease       This edition of Airing Pain focuses on two conditions affecting ...

Trail - Airing Pain 146: Irritable Bowel Syndrome & Inflammatory Bowel Disease

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Coming 9th October:  This edition of Airing Pain focuses on Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) – two outwardly sim...

145: Rethinking Pain: Pain Management in the Community

14 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Airing Pain 145 Rethinking Pain: Pain Management in the Community  This edition of Airing Pain centres on rethinking the traditional clinician-pati...

Trail - Airing Pain 145: Rethinking Pain: Pain in the Community

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Coming 14th August: This edition of Airing Pain centres on rethinking the traditional clinician-patient relationship in pain management and exploring ...

144: Dilemmas in Pain Research

12 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Airing Pain 144: Dilemmas in Pain Research  This episode of Airing Pain focuses on the challenges that researchers must overcome when researching p...

Trail - Airing Pain 144: Dilemmas in Pain Research

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Coming 12 June: This edition of Airing Pain focuses on the dilemmas and roadblocks that researchers encounter when researching pain and developing int...

143: Personalised Medicine and Empowered Pain Relief

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This edition of Airing Pain focuses on the treatment of pain, the importance of catering treatment to a person’s individual genetic makeup, and why ...

Trail - Airing Pain 143: Personalised Medicine and Empowered Pain Relief

27 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Coming 10 April: This edition of Airing Pain focuses on the treatment of pain, the importance of catering treatment to a person’s individual genetic...

142: Societal Inequalities and Disparities in Pain Management

21 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pain Concern would like to remind listeners that the topic of chronic pain can be uncomfortable for those with lived experience of chronic pain. Pleas...

141: Living with Childhood and Young Adult Cancer

20 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This edition of Airing Pain sheds light on the unique challenges of living with cancer as a child or young adult, and the later impacts of the cancer...

140: Childhood Pain - Adverse Experiences and Parental Relationships

15 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This edition of Airing Pain is on the topic of early childhood experiences.   (Content warning: includes abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction) ...

139: Living With Persistent Pain in Wales 2023

04 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This edition of Airing Pain was recorded at the Living Well with Persistent Pain in Wales conference during Pain Awareness Month in September 2023. T...

138: Dance, Chronic Pain and Self-Compassion

30 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is self-compassion a trait or a state of being? This edition is inspired by findings that suggest stronger self-compassion is associated with reduced...

137: Pharmacists and Chronic Pain: How to Prescribe and De-prescribe Safely

07 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This edition of Airing Pain was prompted by the 2022 NICE Guidelines which followed a Public Health England report (2019) looking at medicines associ...

136: The Future of Pain Management

26 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What’s around the corner? This edition of Airing Pain platforms four internationally recognised clinicians from the British Pain Society Annual Sci...

135: Pain Management during the Covid-19 Pandemic – Lessons Learnt

22 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This edition of Airing Pain examines how Covid-19 has impacted on the relationship between patient and healthcare professional. In the two or so ye...

134: Warwick Study of Mental Defeat

01 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What is mental defeat and does it have an impact on the experiences of those living with pain?     In this edition of Airing Pain, Paul Evans inter...

133: Sharing Pain - How Group Consultations Can Help Long COVID And Other Conditions

27 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How the symptoms of long COVID are being managed using group consultations and the many things long COVID has in common with other long-term conditio...

132: When Children Have Arthritis

03 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How do you identify illness in young children and coping as a family. This Airing Pain was recorded at the Scottish Network for Arthritis in Child...

131: Face Pain, Treatment & Management

11 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What causes different types of face pain and what treatment is available? In this episode of Airing Pain we cover facial pain in its many forms, wh...

130: Pain Management Programmes & the Health Unlocked Forum

02 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Scotland’s Pain Management Programmes (PMPs) and what support is available after graduating. This edition of Airing Pain has been funded by a g...

129: Shingles & Post Herpetic Neuralgia (PHN)

03 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Determining what Shingles really is and why vaccine uptake is so low? This edition of Airing Pain has been funded by a grant from The RS Macdonal...

128: Back Pain & Pain from a Global Perspective with the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)

01 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Looking into one of the most globally prevalent types of pain, back pain, and exploring different cultural attitudes towards pain. This edition of ...

127: Pain Management & Taking the Sting Out the Tail of Neuropathic Pain

06 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This edition of Airing Pain has been funded by educational grants from The R. S. Macdonald Charitable Trust and The Stafford Trust. Do you, someone ...

126: Domestic Violence and Chronic Pain

12 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This edition has been funded by the Women’s Fund for Scotland. The Coronavirus pandemic has been long and isolating for everyone, but particularly...

125: Opioid-Induced Constipation

03 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This edition has been supported with a grant from Kyowa Kirin donated for this purpose. While opioids are seen as an effective treatment method fo...

124: Diabetic Neuropathy

01 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This edition has been supported by a grant from The Champ Trust and Foundation Scotland. According to the most recent Scottish Diabetes Survey in ...

123: Opioids and Chronic Pain

07 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This edition has been supported by a grant from Kyowa Kirin. The opioid crisis reached its peak in the United States in 2017, where addiction and ...

122: The Many Faces of Research

05 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This editionhas been supported with a grant from The Mirianog Trust donated for this purpose. It was recorded at the end of April 2020, the second mo...

121: Living with Persistent Pain in Wales

03 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This edition has been partially funded by an educational grant from Grünenthal Limited, donated for this purpose. In April 2019, the Minister for H...

120: Osteoporosis

07 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This edition has been supported by a grant from The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust. Osteoporosis is a largely ignored condition that affects over...

119: Experts by Experience: Working together in pain management programmes

05 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This edition has been supported by a grant from the Plum Trust. In September, the British Pain Society’s special interest group on pain manageme...

118: Pain Management in Young People

01 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this edition of Airing Pain, Paul Evans looks at the issues concerning pain amongst adolescents, including the impact on parents. First-off, Paul s...

117: Patients as Research Partners

03 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This edition was facilitated by the British Pain Society and recorded at their Annual Scientific Meeting 2019.  In this edition of Airing Pain, Pa...

116: Neuropathic Pain 2 of 2: Latest research

06 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this second instalment in a mini-series on neuropathic pain, Paul Evans delves into the latest scientific developments on the condition and the way...

115: Neuropathic Pain 1 of 2: Targeted pain management programmes

02 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this edition of Airing Pain, Paul investigates the ideas behind Pain Management Programmes, and highlights the importance of the patient in shaping...

114: You, Your Drugs, and the Law: Gabapentinoids and medicinal cannabis

06 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This edition of Airing Pain is funded by Foundation Scotland. On 1 April 2019 pregabalin and gabapentin, drugs recommended by the National Institute...

113: Translating Chronic Pain

07 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This edition is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Chronic pain often exists ways that cannot be seen. Due to the intangible and ...

112: Measuring Pain, Reading the Brain

02 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This edition is funded by the Plum Foundation. In this edition of Airing Pain, returning contributor Mark Johnson, Director of the Centre for Pain...

111: Physiotherapy, Mind, Body and the Social Component

05 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This edition is supported by friends of Pain Concern. Director of CSPC Physiotherapy in Leeds, Alison Rose, specialises in working with high-level...

110: Living with Cancer Pain

05 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This edition is funded by the Agnes Hunter Trust.  According to Cancer Research UK, 50% of all people in England and Wales diagnosed with cancer ...

109: Fibromyalgia

07 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This edition has been supported by the Women’s Fund for Scotland. Fibromyalgia (FM) affects around 2% of the UK population, with 80-90% of those...

108: Gender Differences

06 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This edition’s been part funded by the Women’s Fund of Scotland. Do women and men experience pain differently, or is it only our attitudes tow...

107: Easing Pain Appointments with the Navigator Tool

02 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This edition has been funded by funded by the Health and Social Care Alliance and Edinburgh and Lothians Health Foundation. In 2015 Pain Concern r...

106: Pain Education for Doctors, Patients, and Parents

04 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This edition has been funded by Pain Concern supporter and cyclist Ade and The Sackler Trust. According to the British Pain Society, doctors and o...

105: Singing, Laughter, Speech and Pleasure

01 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This edition was funded by the Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust. The British Pain Society’s Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) allows the multidisc...

104: How Sleep and Chronic Pain Interact

02 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This edition is funded by the Constance Travis Charitable Trust and the Isabella Memorial Trust. Sleep can be a sanctuary from life; a way for the...

103: Pain and Relationships

05 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This edition is funded by the JTH Charitable Trust and the Persula Foundation. With between one third and one half of people living with chronic p...

102: Chronic Pain and Resilience

01 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This edition is funded by a grant from the Stafford Trust. For top-level athletes, chronic pain can very quickly end careers. What preparations ca...

101: Persistent Post-Operative Pain in Cancer Survivors

03 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This edition is funded by The Agnes Hunter Trust. An ever-increasing cancer survivor rate means chronic pain associated with the condition and its...

100: Airing Pain at 100 with the Glasgow Pain Education Session

14 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In 2010, Airing Pain was conceived as a way for those with chronic pain, unable to leave their homes and attend support meetings, to easily access vit...

99: Transition Services for Adolescents with Chronic Pain

07 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This edition was funded by a grant by the Agnes Hunter Trust With 8% of young people in the 13-18 age range affected by chronic pain (15,000 living ...

98: IASP Global Year for Excellence in Pain Education and the Benefit of Pain Management Programmes

03 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This edition is funded by Pain Concern’s donors and friends, assisted by an educational grant from Grünenthal. The International Association fo...

97: Sex and Chronic Pain

05 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This programme is supported by an educational grant from the Tillyloss Trust. Along with food, shelter and clothing, sexual expression is one of t...

96: The British Pain Society (BPS) at 50

07 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This programme was funded by an educational grant from Napp Pharmaceuticals Ltd.  In 2017, the British Pain Society celebrated its fiftieth year ...

95: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome 2 of 2

11 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This programme was funded by grants from RS Macdonald Charitable Trust and the Hospital Saturday Fund. Complex regional pain syndrome affects 1 in...

94: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome 1 of 2

05 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This programme was funded by grants from the RS MacDonald Charitable Trust and The Hospital Saturday Fund. The first of two programmes on complex ...

93: Easy Being Green

01 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This programme was funded by a grant from The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust. Getting some gentle exercise tops the NHS’ list of ten self-help ...

92: Diabetes and Neuropathic Pain

05 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This programme was funded by a grant from The Schuh Trust. There are around 4.5 million people living with diabetes in the UK, and every day more ...

91: Not an Old Man's Disease

06 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This programme was funded by a grant from The Schuh Trust. Gout is the most common form of inflammatory arthritis and affects 1 in 40 people in th...

90: Back Pain

10 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This programme was funded by a grant from The Schuh Trust. Back pain causes more disability than any other condition in the UK[1]. It is the secon...

89: Dementia

11 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This programme was funded by grant from W G Edwards and the Cruden Charitable Foundation. According to a survey carried out by the Alzheimers Soci...

88: What to EXPPECT When You're in Pelvic Pain

14 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This edition has been funded by a grant from the Women’s Fund For Scotland. Interstitial cystitis, aka painful bladder syndrome, is a poorly und...

87: Vulvodynia

14 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This edition has been funded by a grant from the Women’s Fund For Scotland. Vulvodynia is a nerve-based pain, often described as a burning or st...

86: Sickle Cell Disease

01 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

An estimated 15,000 people in the UK are living with Sickle Cell disease and at least 250,000 are carriers. Dr Elizabeth Rhodes explains the causes an...

85: Pain in Europe

27 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This edition is funded by Grünenthal. Around 20 per cent of Europe’s adult population live with chronic pain and the consequences for individua...

84: Cancer Pain

12 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This edition is funded by the Agnes Hunter Trust. More people than ever before survive cancer, but the disease and treatment can have long-lasting...

83: Arthritis: From self-help to cutting edge research

29 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This edition is funded by the Agnes Hunter Trust. Over ten million people in the UK live with arthritis and it is the most common cause of pain. P...

82: Pain, PTSD and Perfume

14 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This edition is supported by Forces in Mind Trust and the MacRobert Trust. In the third instalment of our Airing Pain miniseries on military veter...

81: Life After Limb Loss

31 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This edition has been funded by the MacRobert Trust and the Forces in Mind Trust. Hundreds of veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan su...

80: Suffering is Optional

16 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This edition has been funded by the MacRobert Trust and the Forces in Mind Trust. ‘Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.’ A motto ta...

79: Side Effects, Placebos and a Brief History of Nerve Pain

03 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Tens of thousands of soldiers in the First World War survived with limb amputations, but doctors and wider society were unprepared for and often unsym...

78: Putting Children’s Pain in the Picture

05 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

‘In hospital. Don’t know what’s going to happen to me.’ These words, written by a child asked to describe her pain after surgery, speak of th...

77: Realising the Painful Truth

22 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

How can healthcare systems adapt to meet the needs of people in pain? Airing Pain returns to Northern Ireland to find out how the findings of the Pain...

76: Pain, Poverty and Employment

10 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

In the second programme in our Good Work double bill we hear how people in pain and their families are affected by barriers to employment and support....

75: Back to Work

25 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

This edition is funded by a grant from the Moffatt Trust. As many as a quarter of people with chronic pain go on to lose their jobs, so what can be ...

74: Music

12 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Could music be a key resource for managing pain? The results of a survey on music and chronic pain are promising, according to psychologist and musici...

73: Foot Pain

28 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

This edition is funded by a grant from the Schuh Trust. About 10% of the adult population experience disabling levels of foot pain. Producer Paul Ev...

72: Breaking the Barriers to Pain Management

21 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

This edition is part of a project funded by the Health and Social Care Alliance. We know that supported self-management reduces the impact of chro...

71: Protect our Girls

27 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Over 100,000 women in the UK have been affected by female genital mutilation (FGM) with devastating long-term consequences including persistent pain. ...

70: The Case for Pain Management

13 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Make sure you stand up and do a few stretches after listening to this episode of Airing Pain!  ‘Movement is medicine’ for people in pain, says c...

69: People not Patients

29 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Can a doctor ever be too sympathetic? Health psychologist Professor Tamar Pincus explains why this might be the case – patients with long term condi...

68: The Brain and the Genes

15 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

If someone steps on your toe, your toe hurts – simple as that, right?  Wrong! Professor Rolf-Detlef Treede explains how the brain and nervous sy...

67: Biopsychosocial and Spiritual?

01 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

This edition is funded by a donation from the residents at Falcon House, Edinburgh. It’s well established that pain needs to be understood and t...

66: Not a Burden

20 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Friends don’t always understand, they don’t get out much and they’re faced with daunting responsibilities, but they wouldn’t change a thing ab...

65: Hypnosis and Unexplained Pain

05 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

This edition is funded by a grant from the Dorothy Howard Charitable Trust. In this edition of Airing Pain we hear how healthcare professionals ca...

64: Patients, Pills and Policies

18 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

This edition is funded by Grünenthal. Almost 100 million EU citizens have chronic pain, but there is still much progress to be made in improving ...

63: Interventional Pain Management

04 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

This edition has been funded by Pfizer. Physiotherapy, exercise, medications and clinical psychology all play an important role in pain management...

62: Independent Living

30 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

This edition has been funded by a grant from the Moffat Charitable Trust. How can people left disabled and housebound by chronic pain be supported...

61: Deciding Together

17 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

This edition has been funded by Pain Concern’s friends and supporters. In this edition of Airing Pain we hear about how people in pain can take ...