You're listening to Professor Cormac Ryan of Teesside University and the Flippin' Pain team. We're here to flip your understanding of persistent pain.

This is Episode 5 - Understanding your pain can be key.

Louise (Person with persistent pain) told us:

“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.”

For more information and a transcript of this podcast, ⁠visit the Flippin' Pain website⁠.