Yes And: Mental health and chronic pain
Chronic pain is a challenging condition to live with on its own – unfortunately, many people living with pain also face mental health challe...
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Pain Waves
The Pain Waves podcast by Pain BC is where you can hear leading chronic pain experts and people living with pain discuss the latest pain management research, tools, stories, and trends. Pain...
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20 of 92 episodesPaving the path towards painless patient engagement
Not long ago, researchers would only involve people with lived experience in their work as research participants. Nowadays, patient engageme...
Designing a self-management program for chronic pain: LivePlanBe+
Living with chronic pain can be an overwhelming experience. While no two bodies are the same, self-management is an invaluable tool many peo...
Effective Prescribing of Opioids for Chronic Pain
Our understanding of opioids has changed dramatically in the past decade. The pendulum swing of policy guidelines and best practice has left...
National Pain Awareness Week with Take a Pain Check
What does the future of pain care look like in Canada? This National Pain Awareness Week, we’re joined by Natasha Trehan of Take a Pain Chec...
Putting the Pieces Together
Eight million people in Canada live with pain, an experience that can be isolating. One of the goals of the brand new Putting the Pieces Tog...
IBS Awareness
As many as twenty percent of British Columbians live with pain from a condition known as IBS – irritable bowel syndrome. While heavily stigm...
BC Adaptive Mentorship Network: supporting health care providers in treating chronic pain
Providing appropriate care for chronic pain, mental health and substance use can be challenging to health care providers. That’s where progr...
The World Health Organization recognizes chronic pain
On January 1st of 2022, the World Health Organization unveiled their new classification standards for diseases. For the first time ever, the...
Winter self-care
From cold weather to social stress, winter and the holidays often present challenges for people living with pain. Are there tips and tricks...
Pain and circadian rhythms
Research into chronic pain is, relatively speaking, quite young – there’s a lot science still doesn’t understand. Could there be a connectio...
Tokenism in patient engagement
An important part of pain research is patient partnership, where researchers work with people with lived experience to understand their pers...
Masculinity and pain
Studies have shown that men in the Western world are less likely to seek help for medical conditions, leading to poorer health and higher mo...
How memory shapes childhood pain and what parents can do about it
Children can form memories of pain from as early as birth and, once formed, these memories can play a powerful role in shaping future pain a...
The Canadian Pain Task Force: An Action Plan for Pain in Canada
The Canadian Pain Task Force (CPTF) is an external advisory body that has been helping the Government of Canada better understand and addres...
The SYMBIOME Project: Predicting and explaining recovery from musculoskeletal trauma
Musculoskeletal injuries – from car accidents, workplace injuries, sports injuries, and more – are a leading cause of chronic pain, with an...
The role of yoga therapy in an integrative pain management plan
It’s well known that practicing yoga can provide many benefits to both the body and mind, but did you know research suggests that yoga thera...
Ehlers-Danlos syndromes: Current landscape and hopes for future directions
Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) are thirteen subtypes of rare connective tissue disorders characterized by numerous debilitating symptoms, inc...
Chronic pain among Canadian veterans: Personal insights and new initiatives
Canadian Armed Forces members devote their lives to serving their country, often at great costs to their personal health and well-being. Res...
Racial disparities in pain management among Black Canadians
Research shows that Black people are disproportionately impacted by pain and less likely to receive appropriate care when compared to white...