manage their pain. it s started easing off a little bit. - focusing notjust on the physical causes, but also on how the brain interprets and reacts to pain. trying to keep an open mind. i think the understanding we have of pain will take a long time to filter through, and attitudes will change as well, i think, when we understand that pain is something that is modifiable, and we can make changes to it, and we can be empowered to do those kind of things. it may not completely get rid of pain, but when we understand how to deal with this in a different way, i think we will be in a much better place. you feel a bit uncomfortable today, don t you? yeah. should we have a look at that, and try and get you more comfortable. crosstalk. i can see how you are holding yourself. relax you posture, butjust breathing in, coming forwards, yeah? thinking about pain in a new way, reframing our understanding of chronic pain, can transform lives. people like bernie. want you to stand up, yeah? ..whose ap
that really acute, direct force. and nowjust a walk to the shops is an endurance test. i know look terrible, ifeel terrible, but good days of having a full face of makeup on to go anywhere are long gone. i have managed to shower and have washed hair so, yeah, winning at life today. jen lives with chronic pain. pain that persists and may not even have obvious physical cause. she has a problem with a disc in her back, but the pain is now extended far beyond that. our bodies are designed to protect us and sometimes the system that protects us goes into overdrive. and is constantly identifying
i would hope that it won t take other people quite so long now, to be able to put the things together to help them manage it as effectively as i can. i think i maybe just hope that the phone will ring i and there ll be something new, or i don t know, maybe - that is wishful thinking, i but i think if i haven t got hope, then there s no point. it s not the life i used to have, but it s a life. and that s the thing that i always try and focus on, a life with pain is still a life. hello. the weather s been all over
the world is around me, i am trapped in a room. it is often poorly understood, misdiagnosed. i don t think we are equipped as a society or as a healthcare system to deal with that. there is the toll taken by the medication that millions rely onjust to get medication that millions rely on just to get through the day. when i inner withdrawal, i want to hit my horses. it is like my subconscious was screaming, you are going to die. and, the new understanding of chronic pain that has restored how people think and talk about what they are experiencing. it is not something i can change, it isjust it is not something i can change, it is just something it is not something i can change, it isjust something i can coexist with. that is sort of what acceptance is, just finding a way to coexist. knowing that persistent pain is very different and complex means very different and complex means that you actually have the ability to change it yourself. i - yourself. i am dominic hughes, yourself. i
that is their massive achievement, they have run the london marathon. that s not going to happen. so my achievement is, i ve got out of bed today. that s a win. i have managed to get down the stairs, that s a win. i ve left the house, that s a win. nikijones is also notching up some wins. in september 2021, she took part in a charity bike ride around lincolnshire, even while withdrawing from fentanyl and managing her pain. the aim was to raise awareness that we can change the way we think and talk about pain, to live with it rather than be ruled by it. there s a massive misunderstanding of pain. we think hurt equals harm, and of course, persistent pain is very different.