Christine is affected by neuropathic pain (sciatica), which she has lived with since an injury in 2008.  Recently she started to write, blog and talk about her experiences of living well with pain, directed at both clinicians and patients.  She has been invited to sit on research advisory panels and is a patient representative on the Executive Board of the UK’s Physiotherapy Pain Association.  Christine is involved in the production of learning materials about persistent pain, for both patients and clinicians.  Christine is author of ‘The Complexity of Persistent Pain – A Patient’s Perspective’, Rethinking Causality, Complexity and Evidence for the Unique Patient, A CauseHealth Resource for Healthcare professionals and the Clinical Encounter, and co-author of ‘A Person-Centred and Collaborative Model for Understanding Chronic Pain. Perspectives from a Pain Patient, a Practitioner and a Philosopher’ with Rani Anjum and Matthew Low.  She was a patient partner on NeuPSIG’s radicular pain working group and the APDP funded FORECAST study.  Christine is an executive member of AECC University College’s patient advisory group.