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SUMMARY:HSE Living Well with Chronic Pain
DESCRIPTION:HSE Living Well with Chronic Pain programme\nThe HSE Living Well with Chronic Pain programme is open for registration. This free\, online 7 week programme can help you develop skills and confidence to manage your condition. \nWorkshop Topics\nTechniques to deal with symptoms of chronic pain conditions\, such as fatigue\, sleeplessness\, stress\, and emotional problems such as depression\, anger\, fear\, and frustration\, with emphasis on cognitive behavioural therapy techniques for managing pain. \nTopics include:\nï‚· Appropriate exercise for maintaining and improving strength and endurance\nï‚· Balancing activity with rest\nï‚· Tools for overcoming worst-case thinking\nï‚· How our minds affect pain and how we can use our minds to lessen pain\nï‚· Negative emotions\nï‚· Healthy eating\nï‚· Appropriate use of medication\nï‚· Working more effectively with health care providers\nï‚· Communicating with friends and family\nï‚· Communicating with the health care system\nï‚· Communicating with oneself\nï‚· Action-planning\, problem-solving\, decision-making \nWhy join the Living Well with pain programme?\nPeople who are supported in this way increase their knowledge\, skills and confidence to better manage their health in partnership with their health care provider(s). \nHow: For more information or to register\, contact the Living Well Team via Email LivingWellDNCC@hse.ie
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SUMMARY:Understanding Pain The Science\, Pharmacology\, Emerging Treatments\, including Cannabinoids
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an upcoming webinar with Prof. David Finn where he will present on the topic of “Understanding Pain: The Science\, Pharmacology\, and Emerging Treatments\, Including Cannabinoids”. \nSpecifically this event will focus on the following: \n\nThe basic science behind pain mechanisms\, offering attendees a foundational understanding of how chronic pain manifests and persists.\nAn overview of pain pharmacology\, detailing how different medications work to alleviate pain and why certain treatments may be more effective than others.\nA special focus on cannabinoids\, with insights from research at Galway as to how cannabinoids work in the context of pain management\, their potential benefits\, limitations\, and future directions in this field.\n\n  \nPlease join us for this significant\, informative event with the latest global updates and please feel free to share this event as it is open to all.  Details of how to register are below. \nAbout: \nDavid Finn is Established Professor and Head of Pharmacology and Therapeutics\, Principal Investigator and Founding Co-Director of the Centre for Pain Research at University of Galway\, Ireland.  Professor Finn graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Biotechnology from University of Galway and a PhD in Neuroscience from University of Bristol\, and he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Nottingham.  His research focuses on the affective and cognitive dimensions of pain\, stress-pain interactions\, and neuroinflammatory processes\, with an emphasis on the endogenous cannabinoid system. \nHe is Past-President of the International Cannabinoid Research Society (ICRS) and of the Irish Pain Society. He has been a member of the Presidential Task Forces for Cannabis\, Cannabinoids and Chronic Pain of both the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) and the European Pain Federation (EFIC)\, and leader of the Basic Science Work Package for the IASP Task Force. He is a member of the EFIC Working Groups for Translational Pain Research and Pain Research Strategy\, the IASP Task Force for Use of Animals in Pain Research\, a member of the Scientific Programme Committees for the IASP 2026 and 2024 World Pain Congresses\, NeuPSIG 2025\, EFIC 2022\, and a member of EFIC Council. \nProfessor Finn is a member of the Editorial Boards of multiple international scientific journals including Pain\, Journal of Psychopharmacology\, Frontiers in Neuropharmacology\, Frontiers in Pain Research\, and the Scandinavian Journal of Pain. He has published over 190 peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters and frequently lectures at international conferences. \nTo Register: CLICK HERE
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