Episode 5 - Understanding your pain can be key

You're listening to Professor Cormac Ryan of Teesside University and the Flippin' Pain team. We're here to flip your understanding of persistent pain.

This is Episode 5 - Understanding your pain can be key.

Louise (Person with persistent pain) told us:

“Understanding pain is so important to learning how to manage it. I didn’t understand it for many, many years.

"I believed for example, that for anything that hurt I could go to see my GP and get it ‘fixed’ either with a treatment or with a prescription for a medication. In reality of course, that isn’t always the case. That pain does not always mean there is damage is one of the most important things I learned. It stays in my mind whenever I have a flare up of my pain.

"Flippin’ my understanding of pain - learning the basics about pain and how it works - has helped me enormously.

"It has enabled me to develop self-management skills that I had no idea existed. There are many techniques to explore- no one size fits all.”

For more information and a transcript of this podcast, ⁠visit the Flippin' Pain website⁠.