Jackie Walumbe is an advanced practice physiotherapist at University College London Hospitals, where she works as part of a multidisciplinary complex pain team and is completing a PhD in this field at Oxford University.

Some of the questions we will cover in this interview include:

What is pain? What is persistent or chronic pain?

What is complex pain?

What is your experience of supporting people with persistent pain related to knee or hip arthritis?

What is self-management?

What is the one single self-management technique that you wished everyone could embrace?

Jackie has also recommended some excellent online resources that can support self-management of pain:

The Physiotherapy Pain Associations’ list of Links for People in Pain:

https://ppa.csp.org.uk/content/links-...

Living well with pain
https://livewellwithpain.co.uk

Footsteps Festival 2021
https://my.livewellwithpain.co.uk/fes...

Pete Moore’s Pain Toolkit
https://www.paintoolkit.org

Flippin’ Pain
https://www.flippinpain.co.uk

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