When The Scans Are Clean Have you visited your doctor about back or shoulder pain, had a scan and been told that there is nothing that can be found to explain your symptoms? That’s a pretty common experience, but can … Read More
Dr. Bronnwyn Thompson outlines what the literature says about pacing and some ways in which it can be helpful. “Pacing is an active self-management strategy whereby individuals develop self-efficacy through learning to balance time spent on activity and rest for … Read More
Pacing and goal setting are important parts of management for people with persistent pain. Here is a recent and very detailed overview of pacing from the National Health Service in the UK. Why set a pace? Pacing Is a technique … Read More
Pain BC is a resource for people with persistent pain and their healthcare providers. Their Mission “Improve the lives of people in pain through education, empowerment, and innovation. Promote prevention and early intervention in chronic pain and pain-related disability Educate, … Read More
We now realize that understanding pain is not as easy or simple as once thought. It used to be that if the scan showed disc disease we would consider that as a cause for the pain. Though the changes we … Read More
Pain-Ed was developed to inform the public and health care practitioners about the latest pain research; to dispel common myths about pain; and to provide hope for change. Patient Stories A series of patient stories to provide hope to people … Read More
The Retrain Pain Foundation provides free online pain education to the public. They believe that pain patients throughout the world deserve access to accurate and up to date information about pain rehabilitation. The courses have been translated into over 20 languages. … Read More
Understanding pain means thinking about it a little differently than we’re used to. Pain isn’t something we can detect, it’s an experience we have based on how we interpret a whole lot of different information. This video helps re-frame pain … Read More
Helping people with musculoskeletal pain to have access to reliable and usable evidence-informed information, resources and skills to assist in the co-management of their pain. The website offers short, accessible videos including: Pain stories How people have managed musculoskeletal pain … Read More
Professor Peter O’Sullivan discusses some of the widely held myths about back pain. These myths have negatively impacted the perception and treatment of people with back pain. The video shows where we often go wrong with back pain treatment, and … Read More