• Lee Vaughan, who challenges clinicians to step outside of traditional practice and form genuine collaborations with people living with pain.
• Oluwafemi Ajayi, who emphasizes the need to truly listen to those living with pain and the challenges and stigma many face.
• Mary Wing, who emphasizes the importance of peer support and offers insights on clinician-patient-researcher collaborations.
• Lesley Singer, who advocates for understanding the whole person, considering pain bothersomeness more than pain intensity, and building strong clinician-patient relationships.
• Linda Hunter, who urges clinicians to spend time actively listening, not just to pain symptoms, but to their patient's goals and desired quality of life.
• Brent Hedley, who feels people living with chronic pain deserve to be heard and respected as experts in their own experience.

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Keith Meldrum, who encourages clinicians and researchers to embrace the interconnectedness of mind, body, and spirit in pain management.

Niki Jones, who strongly believes including lived experience throughout the research process leads to stronger, more relevant studies, and calls for collaboration over traditional "research on people" models.

Michael and Carla Yeo, parents who faced the frustration of standardized care when seeking help for their child's chronic pain. They urge clinicians to truly understand each patient's unique experience and tailor treatment accordingly.

Virginia McIntyre, who highlights the transformative power of peer support for those with chronic pain and the need to integrate it into patient care.

Alex Haagaard, who calls for clinicians and researchers to recognize that healthcare systems often perpetuate injustice and inequality.

Trudy Flynn, who challenges clinicians and researchers to consider whether using broad terms impacts progress and suggests specific studies focused on fibromyalgia may lead to better outcomes.

Pat Dennis, who discusses how pain isn’t just about intensity, it’s about how it affects everyday life.

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We have 13 great guests spread across two podcasts. The first episode – which drops tomorrow – is all about what really matters to patients. The second episode – which will be released next week – focuses on prioritising patient voices. Keep an eye on our social media, podcast feed, YouTube channel, and website for all this season’s exciting content.

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In this podcast, we are pleased to introduce Joyce McSwan as the incoming President of the Australian Pain Society. Joyce is a highly respected member of the pain management community in Australia, and we are thrilled to have her take on this important leadership role. With decades of experience, Joyce is well-equipped to guide the Australian Pain Society in its mission to promote the best possible pain management for all Australians. As a leader, Joyce is known for her collaborative and inclusive approach, and we are confident that she will work tirelessly to ensure that the Australian Pain Society remains a leading voice in the field.

Joyce shares her vision for the future of pain management, and discusses some of the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Whether you are a healthcare professional, a patient, or simply interested in learning more about pain management, this podcast is a must-listen. Join us as we welcome Joyce McSwan to her new role as President of the Australian Pain Society, and explore the exciting future of pain management.

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In this podcast, chronic pain sufferers will get insights and encouragement from Trudy Maunsell, a pain management expert, as she discusses the challenges of dealing with chronic pain and how to seek help. Trudy stresses the importance of not suffering alone, and highlights the benefits of seeking assistance from the many people and resources available to help manage pain. She also addresses the invisible nature of chronic pain and how frustrating it can be when others can't see or understand the extent of one's suffering. Trudy provides practical advice on how to take the first step towards pain management and encourages viewers to be proactive in trying different approaches. Whether you're new to chronic pain management or have been dealing with it for years, Trudy's message of hope and support is sure to inspire and uplift.

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In this podcast, we are joined by Professor Denise Harrison, a leading expert in the field of paediatric pain research. Denise shares her insights on how babies, particularly sick and preterm babies, are challenged by pain due to various medical procedures. She also provides valuable advice for parents on how they can help reduce their baby's pain during these procedures, including the use of breastfeeding, skin-to-skin contact, and sweet solutions. If you or a loved one are challenged by chronic pain or have a baby who will be undergoing medical procedures, this podcast is a must-listen. Denise's research provides evidence-based strategies that can help alleviate the pain experienced by babies and improve their overall well-being. Don't miss out on this informative and important discussion with one of the leading experts in the field.

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In this podcast, we speak with Tim Atkinson, a patient advocate and author of "Where Does it Hurt?" Tim shares his personal journey with chronic pain and discusses the importance of recognizing one's own agency in pain self-management. He shares a unique perspective on pain as pleasure, which he discovered while researching his memoir. Tim believes that understanding and embracing one's own control over their pain management can be transformative. This podcast is a must-listen for anyone challenged by chronic pain and looking for new ways to approach pain management.

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In this podcast, we explore the challenges of living with chronic pain and how it can feel like there's no solution that works for everyone. Our guest, Jilly Bond, a pelvic pain therapist, shares some hopeful insights into managing chronic pain. She explains why there isn't just one treatment out there for everyone, and that persistent pain can change over time. Jilly shares simple strategies and interventions that can help alleviate pain, such as improving bowel habits, reducing caffeine intake, and incorporating movement and exercise. Jilly's expertise in pelvic pain adds a unique perspective to this conversation, as she shares overlooked causes and solutions for this type of pain. If you're living with chronic pain, this podcast offers practical tips and hope for managing your pain.

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In this podcast, we have the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Katleho Limakatso, who recently completed his PhD research on phantom limb pain. Dr. Limakatso provides insight into the biopsychosocial factors associated with phantom limb pain and how an interdisciplinary approach is necessary for its management. He also discusses the challenges of treating pain early, particularly in cases of emergency amputation, and shares his ideas for community-based care to improve patient outcomes. If you or a loved one is challenged by chronic pain, this podcast offers valuable information and potential solutions to explore. Join us as we delve into Dr. Limakatso's research and gain a deeper understanding of phantom limb pain and its management.

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Emma Karran is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of South Australia. Her current research projects relate to exploring the social determinants of pain outcomes, optimising the management of low back pain in primary care, implementation research, and health communication.

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In this podcast, pain expert Allen Finley shares his insights on how to deal with pain and not let it dictate our future. Allen, who works with children and teenagers dealing with pain in a clinical setting, talks about how important it is to keep our goals in place and not let pain stop us from doing what we want to do in life. He urges listeners not to assume that they won't be able to follow a certain career or pursue a particular sport or activity just because of the pain they are experiencing now. Allen explains that even chronic complex pain can be resolved or managed, and that it's important to keep hope going and look forward to the future. This podcast is a must-listen for anyone who has been challenged by pain and needs some inspiration to keep going.

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In this podcast, we interview Dr. Rachel Zoffness, a pain psychologist and expert in chronic pain management. Dr. Zoffness discusses the important topic of chronic pain and the biopsychosocial nature of pain. She emphasizes that pain is not just a biomedical problem but a complex interplay between biological, psychological, and social factors. Dr. Zoffness shares insights and strategies for managing chronic pain, including mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy. This podcast is a must-listen for anyone challenged by chronic pain and seeking guidance on how to live a fulfilling life despite pain.

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In this informative podcast, chronic pain specialist Andrea Furlan discusses the difference between acute pain and chronic pain and why treating them requires different approaches. Andrea uses an analogy of a house alarm system to explain the functioning of the pain system in our body and how chronic pain can arise from a malfunctioning pain system. She emphasizes the need for doctors and healthcare professionals to recognize and diagnose nociplastic pain, a relatively new concept that is often overlooked.

Andrea Furlan is a renowned pain specialist and Professor of medicine at the University of Toronto. She has extensive experience in managing chronic pain and has authored numerous publications in the field. Her message in this podcast is one of hope for those who suffer from chronic pain, as she emphasizes that this type of pain is treatable and curable with the right approach. This podcast is a must-listen for anyone challenged by chronic pain, as Andrea provides valuable insights and information that can help improve their quality of life.

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This episode was recorded at the 42nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian Pain Society. 

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Dr. Sluka's laboratory studies the peripheral and central mechanisms of chronic musculoskeletal pain. These studies primarily involve the use of animal models of muscle pain developed and characterized in Dr. Sluka's laboratory. Current projects are aimed at deciphering the role of descending facilitation from the medulla in initiating and maintaining chronic muscle pain.

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Dr Saurab Sharma is a postdoctoral research fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia and the University of New South Wales, supported by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) John J. Bonica Fellowship. His research includes developing global strategies for improving musculoskeletal health and developing and testing assessment methods and interventions for pain. Prior to commencing his PhD in 2017, Saurab worked as a musculoskeletal physiotherapist and lecturer in Nepal for a decade.

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Dr Line Caes is passionate about furthering our understanding of the bidirectional influence between parents and children during painful experiences and how this influence changes throughout childhood. Following this passion, she joined the University of Stirling in July 2016, attracted by strong developmental focus in Stirling and the fascinating opportunity to continue expanding her interest in early childhood pain experiences through the Division of Psychology’s Kindergarten.

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Tegan is a teen who has recovered from complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS).

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Pete is a speaker, educator, and advocate for pain self-management. In 2018 Pete recognised there was a need to develop more online pain self-management workshops, for both patients and healthcare professionals, to enhance their pain self-management skills. Pete has since written several patient/health care professional pain self-management books including the Pain Toolkit.

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Dr. Tonya Palermo is Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at University of Washington with adjunct appointments in Pediatrics and Psychiatry.  Dr. Palermo has been in Seattle since 2010 where she directs the Pediatric Pain & Sleep Innovations Lab. The focus of her research is on behavioral, psychosocial and family factors that affect pain experiences, the interrelationship of sleep and pain, and innovative psychological treatments for managing and preventing chronic pain.

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Sandra (Sandy) Hilton graduated with a Master of Science in Physical Therapy from Pacific University in 1988. She received her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Des Moines University in 2013. Sandy has contributed to multiple book chapters, papers, and co-authored “Why Pelvic Pain Hurts”.  She is an international instructor and speaker on treating pelvic pain for professionals and for public education.

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Melanie Noel, PhD, RPsych is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Calgary and a Full Member of the Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute and the Hotchkiss Brain Institute. She directs the Alberta Children’s Pain Research Lab within the Vi Riddell Pain & Rehabilitation Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Canada.  

Dr. Noel’s expertise is on children’s memories for pain and co-occurring mental health issues and pediatric chronic pain. She published guiding conceptual models of children’s pain memory development, co-occurring PTSD and chronic pain, and fear-avoidance.

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Chris is interested in how people make sense of physical experience, how action in pain and discomfort is shaped, and how rehabilitation in pain is informed by the social, cognitive, and emotional context. Chris works in five main areas of translational study: (1) evidence based pain; (2) cognitive factors in pain and analgesia; (3) treatment innovation; (4) child and family context, and (5) DTx for Pain.

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Tasha Stanton leads the Osteoarthritis Research Theme within IIMPACT in Health at the University of South Australia, Adelaide. She completed her PhD at the University of Sydney in 2010 and is currently a National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Career Development Fellow (2019-2021). Her research profile is here: https://people.unisa.edu.au/Tasha.Stanton

Tasha encouraged viewers of this video to look into resources from Noigroup, as well as checking out https://www.painrevolution.org

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Mick is a Professor at London Southbank University. He is doing a 2nd PhD on the predictive processing model for pain. His research profile is here: https://openresearch.lsbu.ac.uk/researcher/822x6/dr-michael-thacker

He encouraged viewers of this video to see his TEDx talk - https://www.ted.com/talks/mick_thacker_p redictive_processing_as_a_theory_to_understand_pain

And this paper: Friston, K., & Frith, C. (2015). A duet for one. Consciousness and cognition, 36, 390-405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2014.12.003

A couple of researchers that Mick suggests you look at checking out if you want to enter the world of Predictive Processing (PP): Abby Tabor - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0UjY95MAAAAJ&hl=en Andy Clark – https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=FYrnmlIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

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Dr. Jennifer Stinson is a Nurse Clinician-Scientist in Child Health Evaluative Sciences and an Advanced Practice Nurse in the Chronic Pain Program at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Her research profile is here: http://www.sickkids.ca/AboutSickKids/Directory/People/S/Jennifer-Stinson-staff-profile.html

Jen encouraged viewers of this video to look into the following resources: https://covid19mentalhealthresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/BIRNIE-CMH-KS-1-pager-ENG-2020-08-24.pdf

‘Pain Management Apps & Online Resources’ Page found here: https://www.kidsinpain.ca/ https://doi.org/10.1080/24740527.2020.1771688

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Ann Meulders is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience at Maastricht University (The Netherlands), and a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the KU Leuven (Belgium). Dr Meulders obtained her PhD in 2008 at the Center for the Psychology of Learning and Experimental Psychopathology at KU Leuven. In 2009, she joined the Health Psychology lab at KU Leuven as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2012, she did a research visit at the Body in Mind Research Group at UniSA (Australia). She was awarded the prestigious EFIC Grünenthal Grant (2012), and more recently a competitive NWO Innovational Research Grant (Vidi scheme –10% success rate; 2016). Dr. Meulders published more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and 5 book chapters. Her work concerns psychological mechanisms in the transition from acute to chronic pain. Her research focused on learning processes in pain-related fear and avoidance. Her research profile is here: https://ppw.kuleuven.be/ogp/staffpagina/00042280

Ann encouraged viewers of this video to look into the following resources:

Meulders, A. (2019). From fear of movement-related pain and avoidance to chronic pain disability: A state of the art review [invited review]. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 26,130-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2018.12.007

Meulders, A. (in press). Fear in the context of pain: Lessons learned from 100 years of fear conditioning research. Behaviour Research and Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2020.103635

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Prof Jo Nijs is professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium), physiotherapist/manual therapist at the University Hospital Brussels, holder of a Chair on oncological physiotherapy funded by the Berekuyl Academy, the Netherlands, and part of the Visiting Professor program of the University of Gothenburg (Sweden). Jo runs the Pain in Motion international research group (https://www.paininmotion.be). The primary aim of his research is improving care for patients with chronic pain.

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Katie Birnie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. She is also the Assistant Scientific Director of Solutions for Kids in Pain (SKIP), a Canadian knowledge mobilization network that seeks to bridge the gap between current treatment practices and available evidence-based solutions for children’s pain through coordination and collaboration. She is a strong advocate for the partnership of patients and families in health research, health care delivery, and health systems design.

Katie encouraged viewers of this video to look into the following resources:

Partnering For Pain website - https://www.partneringforpain.com

Birnie, K. A., Ouellette, C., Do Amaral, T., & Stinson, J. N. (2020). Mapping the Evidence and Gaps of Interventions for Pediatric Chronic Pain to Inform Policy, Research, and Practice: A Systematic Review and Quality Assessment of Systematic Reviews. Canadian Journal of Pain. https://doi.org/10.1080/24740527.2020.1757384

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Lester Jones is a senior lecturer at the Singapore Institute of Technology. Lester was the Inaugural Chair of the National Pain Group within the Australian Physiotherapy Association. He is a Graduate Researcher in the Judith Lumley Centre at La Trobe Univerity. His research profile is here: https://www.singaporetech.edu.sg/directory/faculty/lester-e-jones

Lester encouraged viewers of this video to look into the following papers:

http://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3628

http://doi.org/10.1016/j.math.2014.01.010

http://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2016.1248390

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Dr. Christine Chambers is the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Children’s Pain and a Killam Professor in the departments of Psychology & Neuroscience and Pediatrics at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is also the Scientific Director of Solutions for Kids in Pain (SKIP – https://kidsinpain.ca), a national knowledge mobilization network. Christine led the #ItDoesntHaveToHurt initiative, in partnership with Erica Ehm’s (YummyMummyClub’ (https://yummymummyclub.ca). She has also given a TEDx talk on children’s pain (https://youtu.be/ge6RY7L2vVo) and developed a YouTube video for parents about how to manage needle pain (https://youtu.be/KgBwVSYqfps).

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Jo is a speaker, educator, advocate, and co-chair of the IASP Global Alliance of Pain Patient Advocates Task Force. She writes a blog called ‘MyCuppaJo’ (https://www.mycuppajo.com/).

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Prof Lorimer Moseley is a pain scientist and a science educator. He is Director of the Innovation, Implementation & Clinical Translation in Health ('IIMPACT in Health') at the University of South Australia, and he is Chair of PainAdelaide Stakeholders' Consortium. He co-developed a consumer-facing resource called Tame the Beast (https://tamethebeast.org) and other resources for clinicians and the general public via the Pain Revolution website (https://www.painrevolution.org). Lorimer has also co-authored several books including 'Explain Pain' - https://noigroup.com/shop.

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