Pain Education Resources We Recommend, Because understanding Pain Helps People to Hurt Less

Websites

• Pain Revolution - Resources for People in Pain. Some of the best videos, articles and information to help you understand pain
• Tame the Beast - It's time to rethink persistent pain
• Retrain Pain Foundation - Tired of waiting for pain to go away? Learn a science based approach to overcome chronic pain.
• Pain-Ed - Public & Healthcare Professional Resources
• Pain Research Forum - A Web Group Dedicated to Pain Research
  
• Pain Science  - Sensible articles, advice, & tutorials for aches, pains & injuries

Neuro Orthopaedic Institute (NOI) Resources

• www.noigroup.com
  
• Explain Pain Supercharged (Healthcare Professional Book)
• Explain Pain Second Edition (Patient & Healthcare Professional Book)
• Explain Pain Handbook: (Protectometer + Protectonotes + App)
• Explain Pain (Clinic Posters)
• Painful Yarns (Book)
• The Sensitive Nervous System (Book, eBook)
• The Neurodynamic Techniques (DVD and Handbook)
• The Graded Motor Imagery Handbook (Books, eBooks, Apps, Mirror Box)
• Recognize! (Graded Motor Imagery Flash Cards)

The International Spine and Pain Institute (ISPI) Resources

• www.ispinstitute.com
  
• Books & Workbooks
• Why Do I Hurt?
• Everyone Has Back Pain
• Therapeutic Neuroscience Education: Teaching Patients About Pain
• Why Are My Nerves So Sensitive?
• Your Headache Isn’t All in Your Head
• Why Pelvic Pain Hurts
• Your Nerves are Having Back Surgery
• Whiplash: An Alarming Message from Your Nerves
• Your Fibromyalgia Workbook: A Neuroscience Approach to the Understanding and Treatment of Fibromyalgia
• Your Nerves are Having a Knee Replacement
• Why You Hurt: Therapeutic Neuroscience Education System
• Pain Neuroscience (Posters)

Blogs

• www.bodyinmind.org - (Lorimer Mosley’s research lab blog)
  
• www.noijam.com - (David Butler’s pain education blog)
  
• www.mycuppajo.com - (Joletta Belton’s chronic pain blog)
  

educational & inspiring Videos

• Doc Mike Evan's - Low Back Pain Education
• Lorimer Moseley’s - Expanding Our Management Approach for Patients in Pain at IFOMPT 2016 (2 Talks)
  Talk 1
  Talk 2
• Dr Tasha Stanton - New Insights from Pain Neuroscience
• Understanding Pain in Less Than 5 Minutes, and What To Do About It!
• Struggling to Be Me with Chronic Pain (Testimonial / Educational)
• Never, Ever Give Up. (Inspirational Transformation)
• Mountaineer Avoids Back Surgery (Video blog on core stabilization, inspiration and physical therapy)
  
• Unlearn your pain
  

Podcasts

• PT’s Tim Flynn & Jeff Moore's - Pain Reframed (PT perspective for patients & providers)
• Kieran O’Sullivan -  On Managing Back Pain: 7 Habits of Highly Effective clinicians
• Ellen Langer - Science of Mindlessness and Mindfulness
• Lorimer Moseley -  The Revolution in Managing Chronic Pain
  

Books

• The Brain That Changes Itself - Norman Doidge
  
• The Body Keeps Score - Bessel van der Kork
  
• Science of Suffering - Patrick Wall
  
• Back in Control - A surgeon's roadmap out of pain - David Hanscom
  
• The Pain Truth...and Nothing But! - Bahram Jam
  
• Recovery Strategies – Free Pain Science Workbooks
  

Ted Talks

• Amy Cuddy: “Your Body Language Shapes Who You are”
• Anil Seth: “Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality”
• Daniel Wolpert: “The Real Reason for Brains”
• Lorimer Moseley: “Why Things Hurt”
  

Continuing Education for Healthcare Professionals

• Pain-Ed - http://www.pain-ed.com/healthcare-professionals/articles-and-resources/
• MedBridge -  https://www.medbridgeeducation.com/ (Adriaan Louw’s Courses)

Meditation and Pain Apps

• App: Calm (subscription + free trial)
• App: Headspace (subscription + 10 times free trial)
• App: Insight Timer (free)
• App: Curable Health: A Different Approach To Your Pain (free)
• Website:  www.tarabrach.com (free guided meditations)
• Website: YouTube (search “guided meditations”)
  
• Website: https://mindfulnessexercises.com (free meditations and mindfulness exercises)
  

Inter-professional Pain Groups on Facebook

• Pain Revolution (3K+ members)
• Exploring Pain Science  (19K+ members)

Goal Setting: Active and Habit-forming Treatment Strategies to Promote Recovery

• WOOP Your Goals (Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan):
• Podcast : WOOP! - Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside The New Science Of Motivation.
• App: WOOP!
  
• Goal Tracking Sheet: “Your Goals , Your Plan for Improving Your Health”

Use Outcome Measures for Smarter Feedback

• STarT Back Screening Tool
  
• Neurophysiology of Pain Questionnaire (Baseline Pain Education Literacy)
• Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS)
• Oswestry (Low Back) Disability Index (ODI)
• Neck Disability Index (NDI)

Opioid Reduction

• Opioid Taper Support
  
• Opioid Taper CME
• Brainman stops his opioids
• Opioids
• Most recent JAMA article