2,800萬英國人受到慢性痛症的影響,亦即43%人口受到偏頭痛、背痛等持續性疼痛困擾。兩位主持找來九名身受其苦的志願者參加實驗,嘗試在短短六周內,以瑜伽、太極和針灸等簡單方法,幫助他們紓解痛楚。
Kate與 Javid兵分兩路,探討不同的議題:痛楚究竟是生理、還是心理作用?野外冷水泳是否具有紓緩痛楚的神奇功效?誰更能忍受痛楚—男或女?一位患有基因突變的蘇格蘭無痛女性,是否掌握未來治療慢性痛症的關鍵?
電視版本:雙語廣播(粵語/英語)
In How to Beat Pain, Kate Quilton and Dr Javid Abdelmoneim enlist nine volunteers from around the UK to take part in an experiment to see if simple techniques can help improve their chronic pain in just six weeks. Chronic pain effects twenty-eight million people in the UK, that’s a staggering forty three percent of us suffering with persistent pain like migraines or back pain. Can activities such as yoga, Tai chi and acupuncture be the pain-relieving solutions that will help alleviate our symptoms?