Get a Deep Understanding of the Neuroimmune Science of Pain to Help Patients Experiencing Chronic Pain
For clinicians and anyone working with pain patients, Explain Pain Supercharged offers the latest background information on neuroimmune science, conceptual change theory, and educational science; everything that is required to use the Explain Pain suite of tools to deliver optimal outcomes for individuals experiencing chronic pain.
The understanding of pain is a powerful adjunct to physical medicine and rehabilitation. In this book, authors Lorimer Moseley and David Butler apply their unique style to take the neuroimmune science of pain further than ever before, providing a deep understanding of the neuroimmune biology of pain with over 100 ready-to-use clinical metaphors and therapeutic narratives.
In Explain Pain Supercharged you’ll learn:
- to question your own theories, form solid theories, and set up a methodical way of thinking
- to recognize metaphors and learn how to enrich them as part of your therapeutic narrative
- the intricacies of the somatosensory system including the role of all skin receptors, ion channels, nociceptors, neuroimmune coupling, inflammation, and central sensitization 2.0
- to develop a collection of easily adaptable therapeutic narratives that translate complex science into digestible nuggets
- how to find out which level of misconception the learner holds and how to target your individual education to them
- how to adapt and create new Explain Pain curricula for your own special situations
The book is extensively cross-referenced with other mind body connection books including Explain Pain and the Explain Pain Handbook: Protectometer so that you’ll be able to enrich your patients experience no matter where they are on their pain journey.
Written by G. Lorimer Moseley AO, DSc, PhD, FAAHMS, FFPMANZCA (Hon), FACP; and David Butler, EdD, MPhty, Bhty, MAPA (Hon). Illustrated. Softcover; 238 pages.
Published On: 2023-02-03
David Butler, EdD, MPhty, Bhty, MAPA (Hon)
David is a physiotherapist, an educationalist, a researcher and clinician. He currently serves as an adjunct associate professor at the University of South Australia and an honored member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association. He is best known as an educationalist and his current focus is on adult conceptual change, diagnostic and therapeutic metaphors and pain storytelling. Internationally known and respected as a lively speaker and writer, David is capable of transforming the most turgid of modern pain sciences into instantly relevant, clinically applicable information.
G. Lorimer Moseley AO, DSc, PhD, FAAHMS, FFPMANZCA (Hon), FACP
Lorimer is a Bradley Distinguished Professor, a professor of clinical neurosciences, and a foundation chair in physiotherapy at the University of South Australia. A clinician, a scientist and educator, his research investigates the role of the brain and mind in chronic pain. He is the author of over 400 research articles and seven books. In 2020, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), the country’s second highest civilian honor, for distinguished contribution to humanity at large in several fields. He leads a non-profit organization called Pain Revolution.
