Pain Education Classes – Learn to live well with pain 

“A life-changing experience” – Lindsay McLean, Airing Pain #150

This episode of Airing Pain explores the transformative impacts of pain education classes.

Featuring excerpts from a live education session, here we look at how a brief, free course—delivered by trained volunteers with lived experience—is empowering people to navigate life with chronic pain.  

Listen to hear how patients are learning more about their pain and the toolbox of techniques available to manage it. 

These sessions are the result of a unique collaboration between Pain Concern and the NHS. They are available both online and in person (in Glasgow, run by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s pain management team). Find out more in ‘Additional Resources’ below. 

Watch Lorimer Moseley’s ‘Why Things Hurt’, as highlighted by educator Joan Melville, here – https://youtu.be/gwd-wLdIHjs?si=ckR6O4CN7LPM9a9K.

Contributors: Dr David Craig, Joan Melville, Georgina McDonald, Mairi McWilliams, Lindsay McLean, Heather Wallace. 

This podcast has been produced in collaboration with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.  

Pain Concern thanks the following funders for their unrestricted educational grants: Richer Sound; NHS Lothian Charity, The National Lottery Community Fund; The Hugh Fraser Foundation; The Trades House of Glasgow Commonweal Fund.

Additional Resources: 

Explore our free Pain Education Classes and sign up.

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