Listen to the lecture: Injustice and the chronic pain sufferer

Lecture given by Dr Joanna McParland of Glasgow Caledonian University to the West of Scotland Pain Group on Wednesday 24th March 2010. Dr McParland discusses beliefs about justice and fairness and how they impact on the person with chronic pain.

East of Scotland Pain Group 2010 Meetings

As usual the meetings will be in the Education Centre at Queen Margaret Hospital in Dunfermline, with a buffet from 6.45pm & talk from 7.15 – 30 till 8.30 - 9.

Thurs 29th April
Ian Stevens, physiotherapist in Forth Valley
"Body and Mind - Where's the Pain?"
Ian has done an MA in Humanities & has been interested in placebo, neuroscience & body image.

Thurs 24th June
Lars Williams & Martin Dunbar, from the Glasgow Pain Management Service
"Establishing an Acceptance Based Pain Management Programme"
Lars & Martin have been instrumental in setting up the Glasgow Pain Management Programme & have some interesting audit data from their first year's experience.

Thurs 23rd September
Raj Bhat, Interventional Radiologist with Tayside & Fife
"Interventional Radiology in the Spine"
Raj has extensive experience with vertebroplasty & kyphoplasty.

Thurs 18th November
Renata Riha, Consultant in Sleep Medicine in Edinburgh
"Sleep & Pain"
Renata has published on how to improve sleep & sleep apnoea.

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Spinal Cord Stimulation Dr Andrew Crockett

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Notice of meeting: Education & Audit in Pain

The next meeting of the WOSPG will be on Wednesday 27th January, and has been organised by the Pain Fellows Ajit Panicker and Ryan Moffat.

The theme for the meeting is "Education & Audit in Pain: Looking Back & Moving Forward", and we have speakers from anaesthetics, physiotherapy and psychology.

The programme for the evening (not necessarily in this order!) is
"Medical Pain Training in the UK: What, How and Why?" - Dr Ryan Moffat
"Survey of Pain Training in the UK: Where does Glasgow stand?" - Dr Ajit Panicker
"Following the Yellow Brick Road" - Pain management physiotherapists
"Training routes in Clinical Psychology" - Karra Grant, Trainee Psychologist

As usual the venue for the meeting will be the Ebenezer Duncan Centre at the Victoria Infirmary. Supper is available from 6.00pm, with the presentations starting at 7.00pm.

Lecture programme - 2009-10

28 October 2009
Establishing an acceptance based pain management programme –preliminary data
Dr Martin Dunbar and Dr Lars Williams

25 November 2009
SCS – the new look
Dr Andy Crockett

27 January 2010
Members' night
Dr Ajit Panickar and Dr Ryan Moffat

24 February 2010
Effective communication in the pain consultation – why bother?
Dr David Craig and Dr Pete Mackenzie

24 March 2010
Injustice and the chronic pain sufferer. A mixed methods investigation
Dr Joanna McParland

All meetings will be held in the Ebenezer Duncan Centre, Victoria Infirmary.
Buffet from 6pm, meetings start at 7pm.

All welcome including trainees, allied health professionals, GPs, basic scientists and students.

East of Scotland Pain Group evening meeting

Thursday 17th September 09

'Pain Training in Western Australia'

Donald Johnson

Venue – Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline Education Centre

Buffet from 1830 – talk from 1915 – 2100


Rsvp for catering to-

Dr Steve Gilbert, Pain Management Clinic , Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline, Fife KY12 0SU,

stephen.gilbert@nhs.net

01383 623623 ext 4749

Notice of AGM

The West of Scotland Pain Group will hold its AGM in the informal surroundings of the Republic Bier Halle, Gordon St, Glasgow (along from Central Station) on:

Thursday 28th May at 7pm

This is a great opportunity for young and 'more experienced' health professionals to be involved in the planning of this coming winter's programme of lectures and talks, and thus to add a new experience (and title!) to your CV. Positions on the committee will be available to those wanting more involvement, but the meeting is open to all those of you who may simply have suggestions for the sort of speakers, format and location you would like to see.

We hope to see as many of you there as possible.

David Craig
Secretary

Third St Andrews Pain Symposium: 11-12 June 2009

Third Symposium Flyer

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Notice of next meeting - Tuesday 3rd February

Just a first reminder about Member's night on Tuesday February 3rd at 7pm. The topic under discussion will be CRPS. Dr Stephen May will be giving a talk on this fascinating and often perplexing form of chronic pain. Attendees are also encouraged to come with CRPS cases they may have for discussion. Time will be set aside during the evening for this.

Venue is as before, the very fine Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons on St. Vincent St.

Listen to the lecture: Fear avoidance and its effect on adherence to treatment, a physiotherapist's perspective

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