HOW PAIN AND UNDERSTANDING PAIN WORK TOGETHER
Pain can be very confusing. The worry and stress of trying to find solutions can actually increase chronic pain. The more we understand pain, the more hopeful we become about our ability to change the pain we experience.
WHAT CAN MAKE THINGS BETTER
For over 400 years, we’ve misunderstood pain. Now we have a better understanding about the various causes of pain and some of the new approaches that can help you deal with your chronic pain. Explore the Pain Education Toolkit to find out all the components of pain, how they impact your pain experience, and what you can do about it.
VIDEO
The Understanding Pain video has four sections:
- Why pain has been misunderstood
- Why we have pain
- What influences how much pain you experience
- How you can quiet and unlearn pain
HANDOUT
This handout highlights key points of the video. After you have watched the video, we recommend that you set some personal goals for reading and understanding about the topics that most affect your pain. Share these goals with your healthcare team.
Download handout
RESOURCES
Websites
Videos
- Understanding Pain in Less than 5 minutes, and What to Do about It!
- Tame the Beast: It’s time to rethink persistent pain
Books
- Painful Yarns, G. Lorimer Moseley
- Explain Pain second edition, David S. Butler and G. Lorimer Moseley
