Pain Matters Magazine 25th Anniversary Special: Pain Matters #1 Sonderausgabe

Happy 25th Birthday to Pain Matters!

As a little treat leading up to the publication of issue 75, here is the very first Pain Concern (UK) Lothian Group newsletter, later to become Pain Matters magazine.

Published in the spring of 1995, this newsletter was distributed amongst members of the patient support group of the pain management programme at Astley Ainslie Hospital in Edinburgh, a group which would end up as the charity Pain Concern. Coincidentally, the pain management team at Astley Ainslie are also the guest editors for the upcoming 25th anniversary edition. It's almost like it was meant to be!

Times, and production values, have definitely changed over the years, so please enjoy this little blast from the past on behalf of all the staff, volunteers and supporters who have made the past 25 years possible.

James Boyce, Editor