The Explain Pain Handbook: Protectometer - Softcover

Butler, David S.; Moseley, G. Lorimer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0975091093 ISBN 13: 9780975091098

Publisher: NOI Group, 2015

Synopsis

A Handbook to Help You Find Freedom from Pain Using the Power of Knowledge and the Remarkable Bioplasticity that Exists in Every Single One of Us

Ongoing and severe pain is the costliest health problem facing the world. If you are experiencing severe chronic pain or coping with chronic illness, you understand that when you feel bad it can be so distressing, disabling and persistent that it stops you from doing the things you need and want to do―the things that give life meaning. That’s where this Explain Pain book comes in.

Over the last 20 years a new, powerful and scientific treatment for pain has emerged that does not involve pills, gadgets, or negative side effects. Most importantly, you can do it yourself without the help of medical providers. This integrative pain management is all about understanding your pain and the many―often surprising―factors that can contribute to pain. Repeated studies have shown that there is nothing better for chronic pain than acquiring knowledge about how we all make pain. You can then use this knowledge to change what you think, say, do, and most importantly―change your pain.

Written by two pain science experts with more than 60 years of combined experience in the pain field―in clinical, research and education roles―this chronic pain workbook will help you map your recovery, implement active coping strategies, discover mindfulness exercises, safely increase daily activities and find freedom from pain, all by using the power of knowledge and harnessing the remarkable bioplasticity that exists in every single one of us.

In The Explain Pain Handbook: Protectometer you’ll learn:

• Why we all experience pain and how it works
• How your brain, nervous system, and protective system work and the role they play in pain tolerance
• How to implement a strategy called the “Protectometer” to help you respond to pain
• How bioplasticity works and how it can help you start feeling better
• How to map a recovery plan
• Active coping strategies to help you start feeling better
• How to safely start moving again and/or progress to more movement
• How to harness your “happy hormones” as you work toward recovery
• How to change your thoughts to contribute to your recovery process

Using vibrant, colorful, unique original artwork, this cognitive behavior workbook provides education and easy-to-use tools to help you map a course toward recovery and put strategies in motion to safely increase daily activities and find freedom from pain.

Written by G. Lorimer Moseley AO, DSc, PhD, FAAHMS, FFPMANZCA (Hon), FACP; and David Butler, EdD, MPhty, Bhty, MAPA (Hon). Illlustrated. Softcover; 50 pages.

About this title

About the Author

Lorimer Moseley and David Butler: What do we know about pain? Together, we have 60 years of experience in the pain field―in clinical, research and educational roles. We both have a burning passion to pass on the wonderful things that science is teaching us about pain in a way that is accurate, entertaining and understandable. We both love telling a good story and we are interested in helping you understand and express your story. We know that everyone with pain can learn more about it―patience, persistence, courage and a good teacher all help!

From the Back Cover

Ongoing pain is the most costly health problem facing the world. Based on decades of research, Explain Pain (2003) launched what can only be called a revolution―the Explain Pain Revolution. Explaining Pain has become one of the world's most effective and inexpensive treatments for pain. It is now the cornerstone of modern pain treatment and rehabilitation―with clinical studies showing its benefits across cultures, conditions and communities.

In this patient-targeted handbook, we combine unique and original artwork with material that has been refined over the last twenty years. Scientists now agree that pain happens when the credible evidence of DANGER to your body is greater than the credible evidence of SAFETY to your body. Using this knowledge, we have developed the protectometer―an easy to use tool that will help you apply this principle to understand and deal with your pain.

The Explain Pain Handbook is for people in pain, their friends, families and health professionals. It will help you map your recovery, implement active coping strategies, safely increase daily activities and find freedom from pain, all by using the power of knowledge and harnessing the remarkable bioplasticity that exists in every single one of us.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Your brain makes pain. Your brain will make pain when it concludes that your body tissues are in danger and you need to do something about it. Pain usually makes you change what you are doing and it is such a powerful protective system, to deeply set in your biology, that it can even make pain in a body part that no longer exists! Think of phantom limb pain, where people experience pain in the place where the limb once was. All of your body parts contain sensors that trigger constant messages to your brain about the current state of your body. These messages are simply electrical impulses. Your body has millions of these sensors, scattered throughout the joints, muscles, ligaments and LAFTS (formerly called discs).

Edition details

• Publisher: NOI Group
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0975091093
• ISBN 13: 9780975091098
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 50