Physiotherapy Pain Association

This blog from Cass Macgregor, Christine Addington, Dr Chris Sockalingam, Dr Hannah Houliston and Dr Helen Alexander outlines their reflections of two NHS Lanarkshire projects that aimed to improve the experience of people with fibromyalgia within NHS services.

Rebecca Hunter is a Specialist Physiotherapist in Pain Management, NHS Highland and a PhD Student in the Department of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Highlands and Islands. Here, Rebecca shares her perspectives on how patient empowerment within pain management may be upholding the neoliberalist and capitalist structures in our society. 

The PPA Research Bursaries are open to applications with an extended deadline until 14th February.

The PPA aims to support pain related research activity of members.

The PPA Bursaries are open to applications. The PPA aims to support research activity of members, 

Greg Booth, senior pain management and rehabilitation physiotherapist & senior research therapist and PPA member shares his experience and findings from involving patients and the public in aspects of his research.

Clair Jacobs is the PPA Education Officer and the Lead Physiotherapist at INPUT Pain Management Centre, Guys and Thomas’ NHS Trust.

As Education Officer for the PPA, I am keen to develop a wide variety of learning for our members and others that supports, builds skills, informs and enhances our clinical practice. The PPA are delighted to offer opportunities to people working in health and social care to learn more about narrative approaches. Narrative practice has transformed my interactions with others - professionally and personally. 

The webinar CRPS: Physiotherapy is key was delivered on 29th June 2021 and a recording is available to members.

Unfortunately, there were some technical difficulties with the video featuring someone living with CRPS. To be respectful to the volunteer sharing her story we are unable to share this video more widely, but emphasise that her desire was to promote early awareness of signs and symptoms of potential CRPS and early intervention to optimise management.

The presenters, Fiona Cowell (FC), Sharon Gillespie (SG), Selina Johnson (SJ) and Emma Mair (EM) have  responded to questions posed during the webinar below.  

In 2020, The Physiotherapy Pain Association , in partnership with The Health Innovation Network AHSN, St George’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Duke University, USA secured funding from Q Improvement Lab, a Health Foundation Initiative, to test innovative ideas to improve care and services for people living with pain. An evaluation report of this project – Psychologically Informed Collaborative Conversations (PIC-C) – now available to download.

The "Improving care for people living with fibromyalgia: Working with complexity" webinar was held on 3rd April 2021.

This informative webinar generated a lot of questions from the attendees. These were collated and are answered here by the presenters, Leila Heelas, Dr Anushka Soni, Dr Sandra Wiltshire and Amanda Wall.

The references from the session are detailed below.