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Airing PainAuthor: Airing Pain
Airing Pain is the online radio programme and podcast from Pain Concern. Each edition we bring together people with chronic pain and top specialists to talk about resources that can help. You can listen to Airing Pain every Tuesday via Able Radio, with all episodes available on demand here and on our website. Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favourite podcast app to get the latest podcasts delivered straight to your mobile or tablet. We welcome feedback - rate on your device or fill in our survey. Pain Concern is a charity registered in Scotland SC023559. Language: en Genres: Government, Health & Fitness, Medicine Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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153: Can nature and mindfulness help pain?
Episode 153
Tuesday, 2 June, 2026
This episode is produced in partnership with the British Pain Society. The interview with Sam Hughes was recorded at their 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting.Can nature and mindfulness help pain?This episode of Airing Pain looks at the interplay between nature and mindfulness, and how they can become part of the pain management toolkit. Nature and neuroscience. Understand the science with Dr Sam Hughes. Learn how nature interacts with pain, and how this interaction works in virtual reality. Greater connections. We join the Edinburgh and Lothians Greenspace Trust on one of their group wellbeing walks. We look at the benefits of building connections with nature, each other and ourselves. Focusing on the here and now. We hear from trained and accredited mindfulness teacher Cath Ashby. Cath explains how the practice of mindfulness can be applied to nature, and what this can do for pain.Contributors:Dr Sam Hughes, a Senior Lecturer in Pain Neuroscience at the University of ExeterElly Kinross, a Woodlands and Greenspace Officer with the Edinburgh and Lothians Greenspace TrustCath Ashby, a trained and accredited mindfulness teacher Pain Concern’s free, online mindfulness sessions
