Media

The Mature Muscle Podcast

It met Lee via one of our patients on the GENESIS trial, who shared my interest on the link between exercise, fitness and pain. On an experimental level, I always found it interesting how the elite athletes I encountered were unphased by my pain assessments. On a wider level, the holistic view of chronic pain makes it clear just how important our physical and mental wellbeing can be. I thoroughly enjoyed the conversation with Lee, and look forward to touching base again in the future.

The Telegraph- How you can ease chronic pain

Given the increasing problem of rising rates of chronic pain, there is a lot of attention on how to improve our approaches for treatment to counter this. The spectre of the opioid crisis, alongside high drop-out rates and low treatment success, insists upon improvements to our clinical assessment & the personalisation of pain medicine. I discuss these themes within an interview with Charlotte Lytton.

The Independent- Outpatient Hysteroscopy and Pain

I am very passionate about my work in women’s health, especially within the realm of outpatient hysteroscopy. This is a common and painful gynaecological procedure, which is often not described as such. Lucie Heath reached out to discuss my research, and the implications of these findings for hysteroscopy and the way our medical field advertises and performs these procedures

The Times- Cannabis and Pain Management in the UK

Charlotte Lytton, a reporter from the Times, reached out to discuss the utility of medical marijuana for pain management. While draconian laws and powerful political lobbying prevent medical legalisation, private clinics are beginning to make inroads of helping pain patients gain access. I’m afraid this article is behind a paywall, but please find the link to the right.

The Centre for Integrative Neuroscience & Neurodynamics (CINN)

This is a short clip giving an overview of CINN, the pain lab’s spiritual home. We are very proud to work in such a collaborative and progressive centre, and as such, are always happy to sing it’s praises at the top of our lungs. Always feel free to get in touch if you’d like to come and look around, we are eager to make sure that CINN’s science is spread as far outside our University as it can

It’s the Pain Talking:- Podcast

This was a really enjoyable hour or so, talking with Niloo Razavi, sharing my perspectives on pain from the perspective of a psychologist. Niloo is currently working hard to integrate her own expertise as a yoga instructor, to help develop community based support for pain management all around Berkshire.

BBC Berkshire- Nobel Prize Interview

I was invited by BBC Berkshire to provide some insight into the Nobel Prize award for Dr David Julius and Dr Ardem Patapoutian, as well as our pain research in Berkshire. Dr Julius & Patapoutian won their Nobel prize due to their groundbreaking work on neural pathology, and their joint discoveries of sensory nerves that respond selectively to heat, pressure and cold.  

 

The Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists

I was invited to present my work on pain during hysteroscopy at the Royal College of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. Although I was pre-emptively worried about a defensive reaction from the clinical community, the poster was very well received and I received a lot of positive feedback on the importance of our work. Click to the right to have a look at my presentation, I’d recommend full-screen if you’d like to read some of the more specific points.  

Talk Radio Europe

A short interview with Bill Padley of Talk Radio Europe about our Mind/Body study, described below in the Conversation and Independent. This was the first accomplishment after self-isolation from Corona began and can be sensed throughout the entire interview (in my opinion).

 

The Conversation

This is an article describing an active collaboration with Dr Emma Borg and the Department of Philosophy, as well as with Dr Deepak Ravindran and the Royal Berkshire Hospital. It describes our attempt to stratify patients based on their intrinsic view on pain, and whether they see it as a quality of the body or the mind.

 

This article was also republished in The Independent

BBC Radio Berkshire

This was recorded while introducing BBC Berkshire and its listeners to the CINN Pain lab and the type of research we undertake at Reading. I am joined by Dr Wiebke Gandhi from my lab to give Phil Kennedy and Jo Beck a demonstration of our work and an overview of why we do exactly what we do

One-Minute Thesis

This is a short video that I made while visiting Toronto and attending the Connaught Summer  Institute in Pain. My video would (very gratefully!) go on to win the best submission of the year, and I think does a good job of summarising exactly what it is that I do, in language that doesn’t overcomplicate matters.

BBC South: GENESIS Trial Overview

This is a short article from BBC South News, providing an overview of the GENESIS knee embolisation trial between clinicians at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and our lab at Reading. It provides insight from one of our patients who experienced our anticipated benefits of the procedure, and is now back on the golf course.