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Professor Eija Kalso (President of IASP) & Dr Beverly Collett (Chair, Chronic Pain Policy Coalition) were keynote speakers at the Scottish Pain Research Community (SPaRC) that took place at the West Park, Dundee on the 29th March 2012. Presentations will be available on the Research subpage in due course.
The initial report of the London Pain Summit is available here. Articles in Primary Care Today & Nursing Times
MSK Launch - new online resources for Musculoskeletal Pain
Chronic Pain can affect anyone
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One in five of the Scottish population - more than 1 million people have chronic pain. 6% of Scots have severe pain that significantly interferes with their ability. That's about 312,000 people in Scotland.
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Guide to Scottish Chronic Pain Website
We are developing this site to provide information and advice for people with pain and those who are caring for them as well as healthcare professionals.
Our aim is to make pain management techniques widely known and practiced - rather than a specialty.
There have been many developments in our understanding and management of chronic pain. We hope that you'll be able to find out more through the site and also through your local pain management service.
Anyone can access the information here, you only need a password if you want to edit the site or join the pain management community
If you have comments or useful material for the site please get in touch.
SIGN Guideline
The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) is developing a guideline on the Management of non-malignant chronic pain.
SIGN guidelines are evidence-based and seek to make recommendations on interventions where there is currently doubt over use or variation in practice throughout Scotland. The guideline development group will develop a set of key questions which follow the patient’s journey within this remit. These questions will then be used to form the basis of a systematic literature review on which the guideline will be based.
The guideline development group is scheduled to start in August and will present its initial findings in an open consultation meeting in autumn 2012. Further information on SIGN is available from the SIGN website, www.sign.ac.uk .
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Video Library
Pain and the Brain - how to understand chronic pain in 5 mins - brilliant!
Lorimer Moseley - explaining pain - and a more in-depth lecture from Adelaide
Eliot Kranes of Stanford Children's Hospital, on what happens to your nervous system in pain
Placebo - a funny little film with a thought provoking message - also a radiolab programme
Ron Melzack on the Gate Control Theory of Pain - a video on Melzack and Wall's theory of pain processing from McGill University, Montreal
Patient Stories
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