Summary
Our patient and public involvement and engagement team lead, Antony Chuter, has lived with chronic pain for over 30 years. He recently spoke to the Alleviate research team about his experiences. Watch the first of six episodes of the series ‘Antony Chuter- Living with Pain and What is PPI?'
Antony, who has a number of other health conditions, chose to become a patient partner and work with the Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) team because of the difference it can make to health outcomes.
In this episode Antony offers an insight to the complexity of the pain journey. He highlights the importance for researchers and healthcare professionals to understand the complexities for people living with pain.
“I didn’t feel believed, I often didn’t feel listened too and I was scared.”
The Comlexities of living with pain – Antony chuter
Alleviate is working with HDR UK to create an online, safe, platform as a key resource for the national pain research communities. Creating this hub will enable researchers to tackle the challenges in understanding the complexity and unpredictability of pain and reveal new and improved treatments across diverse chronic and debilitating pain conditions.
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