Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy ART Workshop Gallery

Our first SenseCheQ Art Workshop held on 31st January 2025 hosted with Penny Brohn UK, the cancer health and wellbeing charity, was a great success!

Patients living with CIPN were encouraged to express their lived experiences through art, enabling the participants to create striking modern interpretations of CIPN from a personal viewpoint.

We would like to thank all involved, our willing volunteers, hosts , our art facilitator Jeanna Olsen, and organiser Alison Needler for creating a memorable day, giving us as researchers so much to think about and a striking gallery of works.

Below are examples of the finished works with supporting commentary. The full gallery can be found HERE.

CIPN in my feet makes it feel as though I’m on a bed of nails but when I walk it’s like treading bare foot on stones sometimes. Then other times it’s like I’m on a bed of jelly and lose my balance!

 

My experience of CIPN is that it is quite an isolating condition to have – I find other people don’t show much interest and don’t take it very seriously. In some ways I have adjusted to it and have got used to not having such fine sensation in my fingers anymore.

 

The burning sensation of my feet with a fan cooling them.

 

Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy ART Workshop Announcement

The variety of symptoms and effects CIPN has on quality of life can often be difficult to easily explain and express.

We are partnering with Penny Brohn to organize an art workshop so that patients living with these effects can express their experience through art with the hopes that, together, we can create a striking representation of CIPN which would better reflect these experiences than what is currently available.

All levels of experience and ability are welcome – there are no wrong ways of expressing these experiences.

The Workshop will take place on January 31st , 2025 at the Penny Brohn Centre, Bristol, BS20 0HH.

If you are interested and would like to sign up (or just get more information) please contact Alison Needler at alison.needler@bristol.ac.uk

For further information please see the workshop flyer by clicking on the thumbnail below:

SenseCheQ at the BPS and APDP annual conferences – Nottingham 2024

We were delighted to attend the 57th annual British Pain Society and the 2nd annual Advanced Pain Discovery Platform conferences which take place in Nottingham between June 4 and 7 2024.

SenseCheQ presents 2 posters (click thumbnails below for PDF versions) and a demo of current test kit iteration.

         

SenseCheQ at APDP – Nottingham 2023

We were delighted to attend the 1st annual APDP conference which took place in Nottingham on the 26th of June 2023.

Work on SenseCheQ was presented via 2 posters (click thumbnails below for PDF versions) and a demo of current equipment iterations, see picture below.

There was plenty positive feedback from the community (patients, researchers, clinicians and industry partners) and we look forward to future meetings.

         

Welcome Dr Marin Dujmović

As of today, 9th of May 23, SenseCheQ we have appointed a new research fellow to work at Bristol.

Dr Marin Dujmović is a cognitive scientist (experimental Psychology, psychophysics) who will be working at Bristol to test and code for hardware developed at Newcastle. His work will focus on developing and testing procedures both for the hardware (stress testing, troubleshooting, quality control, user interface) and QST studies.

Recent Project Updates

As of today, 14th May 22, the SenseCheQ project is live and we are fortunate to have appointed two excellent research fellows to work on this innovative study.

Dr Anna Sales is a physicist and data modeller turned neuroscientist who will be leading the Bristol arm of the study.  This will focus on sensory testing studies in healthy subjects and also in human experimental models of neuropathy.

Dr Johannes Gausden is an electronic engineer with a background in developing human brain stimulation devices.  Johan will lead on developing the methods and means to perform the sensory testing in a user friendly package.

Our ethical permissions are in place and we’re excited to get going with developing new approaches to checking sensory function.