Please note, this website contains brief information about each condition, which may be helpful to a student or radiographer such as:

• What is the condition?

• What may cause the condition? 

• The symptoms the patient may be experiencing.

• What may trigger their pain in your interaction?

The information on each page incorporates the NHS website and other charities and organisations linked to the condition. It is a starting point to encourage students and radiographers to read into conditions related to chronic pain. Each page has extra links to different sites for more information.

What is the condition section

This section contains the definition of the condition from the NHS website. It may contain statistics, that are related to the UK population.

What may cause section

Many conditions have a variety of causes. On each page there is a brief section regarding causes, this does not include every single cause in depth. If you would like to further read into the cause, there are many research articles in journals and charities that will have in-depth information.  

What symptoms the patient may experience section

This section contains the most common symptoms related to the conditions, every patient will experience different symptoms. However, a patient visiting the radiography department may experience these. 

Triggers

This section is related to what may trigger the patient’s pain regarding interactions in the radiography department. Some conditions have specific triggers that can be used in diagnosis; however, others may have no triggers and be spontaneous. It is also known that not every patient will experience the same triggers and may have other triggers. This is why it is beneficial to ask the patient what can trigger them to reduce the chance of this in the interaction.

Although chronic pain can be triggered, research suggests in degenerative conditions that triggers can improve with an active treatment approach. 

Patient experiences 

In this website, some conditions will have quotes written by a patient diagnosed with that condition. These quotes are anonymous and show the impact it has.