Explain pain resources
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Videos:
- “Understanding Pain in less than five minutes”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KrUL8tOaQs - “Understanding Pain Rebrand”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH9NG1c6mlY - “Understanding the Complexity of Pain”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv6RPoVZx9M - “Tame The Beast — It's time to rethink pain”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikUzvSph7Z4 - Dr Lorimer Moseley 'Body in mind - the role of the brain in chronic pain' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYoGXv22G3k
- Dr Elliot Krane on the The mystery of chronic pain
https://www.ted.com/talks/elliot_krane_the_mystery_of_chronic_pain - Pain Toolkit animated version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbqrM8W7D48&feature=youtu.be
Books:
- ‘Manage your pain: Practical and Positive Ways of Adapting to Chronic Pain’ by Michael Nicholas, Allan Molloy, Lee Beestom & Lois Tonkin
- "Pain Is Really Strange" by Steve Haines, Sophie Standing (artist) - a short booklet explaining pain in pictures
- ‘Living Well with Pain & Illness’ by Vidyamala Burch
- Recovery strategies: your pain guidebook, a free online book about long-term pain by a physiotherapist Dr. Greg Lehman, on his website you can also find several translations of this book, including Spanish, German, French, Italian, Hebrew, Dutch, and Swedish (visit http://www.greglehman.ca/pain-science-workbooks )
Websites:
- Pain-Ed blog with updates of recent pain research and thought provoking topics about long-term pain http://www.pain-ed.com/
- The British Pain Society https://www.britishpainsociety.org/, with a very useful section on the experience of living with long-term pain https://www.britishpainsociety.org/people-with-pain/
- Pain Concern charity website https://painconcern.org.uk/
- Retrain Pain website https://www.retrainpain.org/english, with 8 lessons (one minute each) about long-term pain
- The NHS website about managing chronic pain https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/ways-to-manage-chronic-pain/
Leaflets:
- Understanding Persistent Pain: How to turn down the volume on persistent pain, free to download booklet from Tasmania
- The Pain Toolkit booklet free to download
