Ep 5 Remix: Five Things About Pain With Melanie Proper

Remixed favourite episode to improve audio quality!

Liz and Jesse sit down with Melanie Proper, the pain management Nurse Practitioner from RBWH to try and understand a little (LOT) more about pain. We go deep on this topic. This is likely to be one you listen to more than once.

Here are Melanie's 5 Things:

1. What pain IS and how to treat

2. Pain is connected to stress

3. The brain can be reassured and remodelled to perceive pain differently

4. Pain and analgesia effects are best assessed through function and wakefulness

5. The bedside nurse is the coordinator of a team approach to pain