Pain Explained
Please feel free to take a look at these resources to help understand more about ‘pain’ and how we can manage it.
Research has shown a link between improved knowledge about pain with improved recovery outcomes.
Pain Explained
Please feel free to take a look at these resources to help understand more about ‘pain’ and how we can manage it.
Research has shown a link between improved knowledge about pain with improved recovery outcomes.
Understanding Pain
. . . learn the difference between acute and chronic pain, how it impacts one and how to take back control.
Professor Lorimer Moseley
. . . pain expert Lorimer Moseley helps explain persistent pain problems. Knowledge is power.
Chronic Pain
. . . another fab video helping you understand how pain works (Getting a grip on pain and the brain with Professor Lorrimer Moseley follows the previous video. Well worth a listen!
23.5 Hours - Exercise and Pain
. . . a great little video about the benefits of exercise.
Back pain - separating fact from fiction
. . . expert Physiotherapist Professor Peter O’Sullivan talks through common misheld beliefs about backs.
Low Back Pain - Jack’s story
. . . it’s easy to overprotect a back, surely it needs protecting, its weak and vulnerable isn’t it? Take a look at Jack’s story as it might help reframe your beliefs especially if you have been suffering for a while. Despite medical scans implying Jack, in a great deal of pain, had no hope he is now very happy digging holes for a living.
Sensitive sensor lights
. . . listen to how you perception of danger impacts your pain experience.
Let the light in
. . . listen to how the power of movement can help you on your journey to recovery.
self lubricating animals
. . . listen to how factors like stress impact simple aspects of health such as mobility
The Drug Cabinet in the Brain
. . . tap into your own brain’s ability to produce pain killers.
Pain Education
. . . a series of stories and links about individuals who have experienced chronic and persistent pain.
Importance of keeping moving
Motion is lotion. The resources below highlight the many benefits of exercise in our lives and offer some specific advice for back/ knee and tendon problems.
Importance of keeping moving
Motion is lotion. The resources below highlight the many benefits of exercise in our lives and offer some specific advice for back/ knee and tendon problems.
Our modern lives are often sedentary, especially if our jobs are desk based. When we do find time to exercise we can fall into the boom and bust trap leading to overload soft tissue injuries
23.5 Hours - Exercise and Pain
. . . a great little video about the benefits of exercise.
Low Back Pain - Jack’s story
. . . it’s easy to overprotect a back, surely it needs protecting, its weak and vulnerable isn’t it? Take a look at Jack’s story as it might help reframe your beliefs especially if you have been suffering for a while. Despite medical scans implying Jack, in a great deal of pain, had no hope he is now very happy digging holes for a living.
ResearchGate
. . . two good overviews of the current evidence based management of Low Back Pain helping professionals ensure best practice.
Help for knee pain
. . . if you are suffering from pain at the front of your knee this short video should equip you with some good advice and exercises.
Got a tendon problem?
. . . we know what tendons like and what they don’t like. This short video will tell you what to avoid and what to not worry about thus giving your tissues a good opportunity to recover. Paced loading exercise is the way forward. Seek help if you aren’t sure where to start.
Soft Tissue Healing
The information below is gives you an overview of the processes underlying the repair of your tissues following injury.
Soft Tissue Healing
The information below is gives you an overview of the processes underlying the repair of your tissues following injury.
Click below to download word files to gain a better understanding of normal tissue healing and how to optimise your own healing after injury.
Interpreting Scans
The links below offer reassurance that few of the changes identified on scans correlate with peoples experiences of pain.
Interpreting Scans
The links below offer reassurance that few of the changes identified on scans correlate with peoples experiences of pain.
American Journal of Neuroradiology
. . . an interesting article looking at findings on spinal imaging of asymptomatic individuals. A reassuring article exploring how normal many changes are
National Library of Medicine
. . . why changes shown on an MRI or other forms of scans may not be relevant to your back pain experience.
National Library of Medicine
. . . why changes shown on an MRI or other forms of scans may not be relevant to your hip pain experience.
Mindfulness
Below are a few resources which might help with your general well-being as we now know that factors like stress can impact on your physical health.
Mindfulness
Below are a few resources which might help with your general well-being as we now know that factors like stress can impact on your physical health.
We take breathing for granted, but understanding how to control breathing and awareness can be powerful and truly influence your health and wellbeing.
2 free Apps that you can download to your phone - both are aimed to gain a better understanding of how deep slow breathing techniques can calm your brain and therefore your pain.
Brain Workshops Audio - Progressive Relaxation. Click link to listen to sample 7.5 minute audio workshop.