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Check Up is your chance to talk to doctors about the health issues that most concern you and your family. Each week Barbara Myers is joined by a medical expert to take your calls and emails on a particular topic and give you the most up to date advice. No appointment necessary.
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 Full programme transcript >>
Chronic Pain
Millions of people experience chronic pain - continuous pain that can persist for months or even years.
It is particularly associated with arthritis, endometriosis, shingles or migraines, but it is not always possible to find the cause; even if it starts with an injury, pain can be present where there is no damage or harm involved.
There are various methods which can be used to help ease the pain, however, including medication, blocking nerve pathways and physiotherapy.
If these don't work, pain clinics can help sufferers live as full a life as possible while coping with their symptoms.
If you suffer from chronic pain, are you taking the correct medication? What are the possible side effects? Will the pain ever go away?
In this edition of Check Up, Barbara Myers poses these and other questions to Dr Charles Pither of the RealHealth Institute in London.
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Check Up is your opportunity to ask an expert about the condition. If you have a question, contact us by calling 0870 010 0444 from 1.30pm - 3.30pm on the day of broadcast or by emailing the programme - see 'Contact Check Up' link above.
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RELATED LINKS
The RealHealth Institute
DIPEx
Guy's and St Thomas's: Imput Pain Management Unit
Pain Concern
The British Pain Society
The Pain Web
PainManagement.org.uk
Pain Support
Arthritis Research Campaign - Pain and Arthritis
Expert Patients
Coventry Pain Clinic
BBC Health: Ask the Doctor - Chronic Pain Syndrome
BBC Health: Understanding Pain
BBC Radio 4: Living With Pain
BBC Health
BBC Health Messageboard
BBC News Health
BBC Webguide
NHS Direct
Dr Foster
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