Chronic Pain

Pain and the brain

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There is a direct link between your pain and the brain. However you may well have heard the statement ‘it’s all in your head’. I have sadly come across many people who have been told this by others including medical professionals. Whilst pain is not ‘all in your head’ in the sense it is made […]

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What is Chronic Pain?

Chronic Pain (or sometimes known as long term or persistent pain) is classified as a pain that last longer than 3 months and may not respond to usual medical treatment (NICE, 2021) In July 2020, The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) revised the definition of Pain as follows: “An unpleasant sensory and

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