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Managing pain

Last updated on Friday, December 6, 2024

Managing Pain The old-fashioned treatment for generalised joint & muscle pain, also known as chronic pain, was bed rest for weeks or months on end. We now know this is the worst possible approach. Exercise and continuing to work are key to recovery. Resting all day may not always be the bes...

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Running into 2025

Last updated on Monday, January 6, 2025

As 2025 begins, many people across Wirral are setting health and fitness goals, aiming to turn over a new leaf after the indulgence of Christmas. Dr Martin Pritchard-Howarth, a consultant at Arrowe Park Hospital, and a passionate triathlete, offers practical advice to help you get moving, stay m...

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About the Wirral Chronic Pain Service

Last updated on Friday, October 24, 2025

How does this service help patients manage pain?          This service takes a holistic view of you and your pain using the biopsychosocial model. This means we look at how biological factors (e.g. sleep, diet, injury, medicine, other health conditions), psychological factors (emotions, th...

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Young and at-risk urged to get latest top-up COVID-19 vaccine

Last updated on Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Young and at-risk urged to come forward for latest top-up COVID-19 vaccine in the last few weeks of spring programme Younger people who are at extra risk from COVID-19 are being urged to get their life-saving spring vaccine before the latest offer ends on Sunday 30 June. NHS England – North Wes...

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Interstitial Cystitis Clinics

Last updated on Monday, February 10, 2025

What is Interstitial cystitis? Interstitial cystitis is a poorly understood bladder condition that causes long-term pelvic pain and problems with urination. It's also known as "painful bladder syndrome" or "bladder pain syndrome". The condition tends to first affect people in their 30s and 40s...

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Tag:   cystitis (3)     Interstitial (2)     bladder (6)     urology (4)     testing (4)     burning (1)     urination (1)     frequent (2)    

Urogynaecology

Last updated on Wednesday, August 20, 2025

  UROGYNAECOLOGY  We offer a comprehensive service for women of all ages who suffer with problems such as bladder incontinence and prolapse of the genital organs and work in tandem with the Wirral Integrated Continence Service.  Patients suffering with bladder incontinence and prolapse of the...

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Sedation

Last updated on Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Intravenous sedation is the most common form of sedation and is the use of drugs through a cannula in a vein (a drip) to make you feel less anxious and it will often make you drowsy or sleepy. The drugs may actually make you sleep and the drugs can make you forget what has happened. Other ways of...

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X-ray

Last updated on Wednesday, November 5, 2025

X-ray is an imaging technique to show up abnormalities in bones and certain body tissue, such as breast tissue. An x-ray is the most common form of diagnostic examination used as it is a quick and painless method to diagnose many health conditions such as: Broken bones and fractures Early si...

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