Airing Pain
Airing Pain is the online radio programme and podcast from Pain Concern. Each edition we bring together people with chronic pain and top specialists to talk about resources that can help. You can listen to Airing Pain every Tuesday via Able Radio, with all episodes available on demand here and on our website. Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favourite podcast app to get the latest podcasts delivered straight to your mobile or tablet. We welcome feedback - rate on your device or fill in our survey. Pain Concern is a charity registered in Scotland SC023559.
Episodes
May 21, 2025 • 34 mins
Airing Pain #149: Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity
This edition of Airing Pain looks at the research into why pain persists, how we can identify people at risk and whether we could prevent it happening.
In this episode:
This edition of Airing Pain looks at the research into why pain persists, how we can identify people at risk and whether we could prevent it happening.
In this episode:
- How does acute short-term pain turn into chronic, persistent pain? Kathleen Sluka explains that people who experience psychological trauma at ...
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May 16, 2025 • 1 min
This edition of Airing Pain focuses on advances in understanding and managing chronic pain, from neuroimmune mechanisms to new diagnostic and treatment approaches.
In this trailer, listen to excerpts from the full program on:
In this trailer, listen to excerpts from the full program on:
- how does acute, short term pain turn into chronic, persistent pain?
- Why do early life experiences affect later life pain?
- And why do existing tools for measuring pain fall short? <...
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Full Episode available: 5/3/2025
This Airing Pain episode explores how neurodivergent individuals experience pain, potential links to hypermobility, and the need for better education to support conditions like autism and ADHD.
Neurodiversity refers to the different ways a person’s brain processes information.
It is an umbrella term used to describe a number of conditions including Autism or Autism...
This Airing Pain episode explores how neurodivergent individuals experience pain, potential links to hypermobility, and the need for better education to support conditions like autism and ADHD.
Neurodiversity refers to the different ways a person’s brain processes information.
It is an umbrella term used to describe a number of conditions including Autism or Autism...
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May 2, 2025 • 5 mins
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 at the Wellcome Collection in London called "Jason and the Adventure of the 254"
In this interview he talks about his recent exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London called "Jason and the Adventure of the 254"
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April 30, 2025 • 1 min
"Susan Birth, Chief Executive of Ehlers-Danlos Support UK, explores the challenges faced by individuals with Ehlers-Danlos syndromes and hypermobility spectrum disorders, touching on symptom management, NHS navigation, and promising new research."
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April 30, 2025 • 1 min
"Simon Harvey, General Manager of Able in South Wales, discusses supporting adults with learning disabilities, autism, and neurodivergent conditions. He reflects on the podcast's relevance for families and individuals, sharing personal insights about pain management and raising autistic children with ADHD."
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March 5, 2025 • 51 mins
Airing Pain 148: Links between hypermobility and neurodivergence
Released on: 5/3/2025
This Airing Pain episode explores how neurodivergent individuals experience pain, potential links to hypermobility, and the need for better education to support conditions like autism and ADHD.
Neurodiversity refers to the different ways a person’s brain processes information.
It is an umbrella term used to ...
Released on: 5/3/2025
This Airing Pain episode explores how neurodivergent individuals experience pain, potential links to hypermobility, and the need for better education to support conditions like autism and ADHD.
Neurodiversity refers to the different ways a person’s brain processes information.
It is an umbrella term used to ...
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December 4, 2024 • 36 mins
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.
In this episode:
- Vicky Sandy-Davis, Lead Nurse of Independent Health and Social Care, talks about the importance of recognizing the value of person-centred care, specifically for people with intellectual or learning disabilities
- Ian Ta...
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October 9, 2024 • 28 mins
Airing Pain 146: Irritable Bowel Syndrome & Inflammatory Bowel Disease
This edition of Airing Pain focuses on two conditions affecting the gut: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Both affect the digestive system, and both cause pain. In this episode we learn about what separates these outwardly similar sounding conditions, how they are diagnosed, and what treatments might be...
This edition of Airing Pain focuses on two conditions affecting the gut: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Both affect the digestive system, and both cause pain. In this episode we learn about what separates these outwardly similar sounding conditions, how they are diagnosed, and what treatments might be...
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October 2, 2024 • 1 min
Coming 9th October: This edition of Airing Pain focuses on Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) – two outwardly similar sounding conditions, but the devil is in the details.
Our contributors are experts on visceral pain, gastrointestinal disease, and psychological factors affecting chronic conditions; find out what they have to say in the latest edition of Airing Pain, coming so...
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August 14, 2024 • 38 mins
Airing Pain 145 Rethinking Pain: Pain Management in the Community
This edition of Airing Pain centres on rethinking the traditional clinician-patient relationship in pain management and exploring alternative approaches to bringing pain management back into the community.
This edition of Airing Pain centres on rethinking the traditional clinician-patient relationship in pain management and exploring alternative approaches to bringing pain management back into the community.
Dr Barbara Phipps, GP and Lifestyle Medicine expert, discusses the development and benefits of group consultations for pain manag...
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August 7, 2024 • 57 secs
Coming 14th August: This edition of Airing Pain centres on rethinking the traditional clinician-patient relationship in pain management and exploring alternative approaches to bringing pain management back into the community.
Is the 1-to-1 doctor-patient consultation the best we can do? How can we help people to feel more empowered in managing their own pain? Our contributors are experts in pain management, r...
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June 12, 2024 • 31 mins
Airing Pain 144: Dilemmas in Pain Research
This episode of Airing Pain focuses on the challenges that researchers must overcome when researching pain and developing new treatment approaches. Many questions remain unanswered in the field of pain research. For example, we might know that a treatment works for some people living with pain, but we might not know how it works or why some people benefit and some do not. <...
This episode of Airing Pain focuses on the challenges that researchers must overcome when researching pain and developing new treatment approaches. Many questions remain unanswered in the field of pain research. For example, we might know that a treatment works for some people living with pain, but we might not know how it works or why some people benefit and some do not. <...
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May 28, 2024 • 56 secs
Coming 12 June: This edition of Airing Pain focuses on the dilemmas and roadblocks that researchers encounter when researching pain and developing interventions, how they may overcome them, and why systematic reviews of research are so important.
Our contributors for this edition are leaders in this field and they discuss some of the issues they have encountered whilst conducting their research into pain and how to tr...
Our contributors for this edition are leaders in this field and they discuss some of the issues they have encountered whilst conducting their research into pain and how to tr...
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April 10, 2024 • 37 mins
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 addressing the psychological dimensions of pain is crucial in treating it effectively.
The process of finding a medication or treatment that works for a person often involves a lot of trial and error, which can be a frustrating process for someone to go through. This pro...
The process of finding a medication or treatment that works for a person often involves a lot of trial and error, which can be a frustrating process for someone to go through. This pro...
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March 27, 2024 • 1 min
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 makeup, and why addressing the psychological dimensions of pain is crucial in treating it effectively.
Our contributors for this edition discuss the ways in which the treatment of pain can be made more effective for people by incorporating personalised medicine or psych...
Our contributors for this edition discuss the ways in which the treatment of pain can be made more effective for people by incorporating personalised medicine or psych...
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February 21, 2024 • 39 mins
Pain Concern would like to remind listeners that the topic of chronic pain can be uncomfortable for those with lived experience of chronic pain. Please read the description for information about this edition's content.
In a 2020 US study, it was found that ‘Implicit bias remains a contributor to healthcare disparities.’ This can be based on gender, ethnicity, disability or locality, and has the potential to affect so...
In a 2020 US study, it was found that ‘Implicit bias remains a contributor to healthcare disparities.’ This can be based on gender, ethnicity, disability or locality, and has the potential to affect so...
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December 20, 2023 • 28 mins
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 treatment they underwent during the critical formative years. Airing Pain speaks to experts on the longitudinal impacts of cancer for these age groups; across medical, physical, and psychosocial.
Pain and fatigue are commonly reported as the most significant negative ...
Pain and fatigue are commonly reported as the most significant negative ...
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November 15, 2023 • 35 mins
This edition of Airing Pain is on the topic of early childhood experiences.
(Content warning: includes abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction)
The World Health Organisation states that ‘adverse childhood experiences (ACE) can have lifelong consequences on a person’s health, and well-being, and can lead to a person developing persistent pain in later life’. A lot of this research is conducted in adults, and of co...
(Content warning: includes abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction)
The World Health Organisation states that ‘adverse childhood experiences (ACE) can have lifelong consequences on a person’s health, and well-being, and can lead to a person developing persistent pain in later life’. A lot of this research is conducted in adults, and of co...
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October 4, 2023 • 50 mins
This edition of Airing Pain was recorded at the Living Well with Persistent Pain in Wales conference during Pain Awareness Month in September 2023. The topic of the conference was the launch of the revised Persistent Pain guidance first published in 2019.
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how we live and access services. How are healthcare professionals who treat patients with persistent pain capitalising on this im...
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how we live and access services. How are healthcare professionals who treat patients with persistent pain capitalising on this im...
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