You're listening to Professor Cormac Ryan of Teesside University and the Flippin' Pain team, here to flip your understanding of persistent pain. This is Episode 6 - Understanding your pain can be key.

“Understanding pain is so important to learning how to manage it. I didn’t understand it for many, many years.

I believed for example, that for anything that hurt I could go to see my GP and get it ‘fixed’ either with a treatment or with a prescription for a medication. In reality of course, that isn’t always the case. That pain does not always mean there is damage is one of the most important things I learned. It stays in my mind whenever I have a flare up of my pain.

Flippin’ my understanding of pain - learning the basics about pain and how it works - has helped me enormously.

It has enabled me to develop self-management skills that I had no idea existed. There are many techniques to explore- no one size fits all”

- Louise (Person with persistent pain)

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