People who feel tense at the end of the week need a stretch routine. The best way to protect yourself from chronic pain is to relieve the pressure around your joints often. A quick stretching session done a few times a week will do the trick. Hold each stretch for 30-90s:

Exercise usually leads to hypoalgesia but in people experiencing persistent pain, mechanisms are altered and this mechanism is impaired. Professor Senba at #WC2024 PPA

Take home message from Professor Senba, exercise can normalise mesocortico- limbic function and reduce pain #WC2024 ⁦PPA⁩

“I felt incapable, I felt hollowed out by it… I lost my sense of self.” BBC presenter Kirsty Young speaks to @EmmaBarnett about the impact of living with chronic pain, and how she learned to accept her condition. #R4Today

Our very own Katie Gore smashing it at IASP sharing her 1st PhD project exploring measurement properties of MSK tests in chronic #pelvicpain. A much needed systematic review. Watch this space for the full publication & important clinical conversations #WC2024 POGP

I found this short piece featuring Kirsty Young speaking about her fibromyalgia quite moving. Perhaps because her experience seems to be an everyman experience and we have so few effective therapies for so much chronic pain. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Amazing talks from Dr. Melanie Noel and others - how do adverse childhood experiences #ACEs affect across lifetimes, generations. We need to think about trauma and how to prevent #chronicpain #wc2024

"GPs concerned cannabis clinics are putting commercial interests first" - Listen to New Zealand Pain Society's Buzz Burrell talk on RNZ about the evidence of cannabis in chronic pain rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

Can you train your brain to beat chronic pain? Prof. Lorimer Moseley in today’s ⁦The Times and The Sunday Times⁩ <<< with apologies to those trapped behind the paywall thetimes.com/article/6e760a…

Sleep is absolutely vital for health and wellbeing. Poor sleep is one of the most frequently reported issues, that people living with pain experience. There are things you can do to improve your sleep - take a look at our resources livewellwithpain.co.uk/resources-for-…

itv.com/news/tyne-tees… Ted a Teller of Tall Tales and Short Stories. Flippin’ Pain Dr Mark C: Green-Blue Exercise Enthusiast dryrobe Louise Trewern 🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈 Dermot O'Leary Tim Atkinson DurhamUniversity Overwhelmed with so many emtions please share and give the amazing team whom worked hard on producing this animation documentary , credit deserved

Patient Information Forum (PIF) has launched a new three-part video series to help everyone find and recognise trusted health information. Health misinformation: Think before you share youtube.com/watch?v=xIv-HI…

Patient Information Forum (PIF) has launched a new three-part video series to help everyone find and recognise trusted health information. 7 ways to check you can trust health information youtube.com/watch?v=5df9yE…

Patient Information Forum (PIF) has launched a new three-part video series to help everyone find and recognise trusted health information. Look out for social media health misinformation youtube.com/watch?v=wDXGgS…

September is Pain Awareness Month! Follow British Pain Society for resources & information focusing on a unified approach across the UK to improve pain management, raise awareness & empower those affected britishpainsociety.org/resources/pain… #PainAwarenessMonth

Understanding why sleep is tricky when you have pain can help you find some solutions. Want to find out more? livewellwithpain.co.uk/resources-for-…

Short film release for pain awareness month. A conversation between andy with lived experience of chronic pain and richmond, the pain coach. richmondstace.com/short-film-rel… #thepaincoach #chronicpain Cardiff MI Workshops Prof Mick Thacker Mike Pegg Keith Meldrum 🇨🇦 Peter O'Sullivan Jerry Durham

Join us next Monday 7pm for our 2024 webinar series on the optimisation of CRPS treatment with early MDT input. Register below 👇🏽

Our history of fibromyalgia video (fmauk.org/history) shows that fibromyalgia has been talked about since at least the 1600s within medical journals with earlier individual accounts of people that may have had fibromyalgia.

Sleep is absolutely vital for health and wellbeing. Poor sleep is one of the most frequently reported issues, that people living with pain experience. There are things you can do to improve your sleep - take a look at our resources livewellwithpain.co.uk/resources-for-…