Rajam Roose is the founder of the San Diego Pain Summit, a yearly conference featuring some of the world’s leading expert clinicians and researchers in the field of pain science and the biopsychosocial model of therapy practice. Became a massage therapist so she could buy a sailboat Became fascinated in pain science because she suspected that…
Evie speaks with Niki, a person who has been living with chronic facial pain due to trigeminal neuralgia since 2002. Niki has been through unsuccessful surgical management including three microvascular decompression (MVD) procedures and motor cortex stimulation. She attended a pain management programme (PMP) in 2005 which she didn’t feel was particularly helpful for her…
Evie and Louise Trewern from discuss Louise’s experience of tapering her antidepressants. Louise has a long history of chronic pain with fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis. She was on opioid medication for 13 years, and during this period also used antidepressants duloxetine and sertraline. After a successful opioid taper, Louise managed to stop using opioids completely. After…
Patient advocate Adrian McGregor speaks with physio Evie Martin. Adrian is a patient pain self-management expert and advocate, who has learned to manage his own persistent back pain. He has guided other patients on Pain Management Programmes as part of a multidisciplinary team. In this video he speaks of learning to become his “own health…
Chronic Pain and Relationships Louise Trewern from our Get Better team and her wife Karen talk with Evie. Chronic pain can have a profound effect on a relationship. Louise from suffered with chronic pain from fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis, in addition to many complications from long-term high dose opioid use. Her wife Karen became her carer.…
This is a short clip from a longer conversation with Louise and Karen Trewern. In this section they speak candidly about the difficulties they experienced in their relationship due to Louise’s illness. Background: Louise had been incapacitated with chronic pain and was on high-dose opioids, and her wife Karen had become her carer. This clip…
Louise has lived with pain of varying degrees since she was child. After being diagnosed with fibromyalgia in her 30’s, her pain gradually worsened over time and she was put on opioid pain medication which she took for almost 13 years. She struggled to manage daily life, becoming depressed and inactive. She was also diagnosed…
On The Back Pain Podcast, Rob Beaven speaks with Dr. Deepak Ravindran, consultant in musculoskeletal and pain medicine. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/all-about-fibromyalgia/id1511515312?i=1000475357580 Deepak and Rob discuss the widespread problem that is Fibromyalgia, how common it is and its relationship to other pain conditions. Key Takeaways Fibromyalgia is a chronic widespread pain condition characterised by sleep deprivation, memory loss,…