HOW NEUROSCIENCE HELPS EXPLAIN COMPLEX, PERSISTENT PAIN
Contemporary neuroscience shows that pain is a complex process and that chronic pain is actually not a life sentence of misery but something manageable and changeable. Yet our patients often continue to struggle, often receiving passive interventions only, without lasting improvement. Helping your patient to understand pain can completely change the conversation.
VIDEO
The video contains all the educational content, so be sure to have the patient watch the entire video.
HANDOUT
In this handout, you will learn:
- All pain is real
- Pain is complex and has many contributors besides tissue damage or bodily injury
- Pain is changing continuously and can change for the better
- Patients have a greater ability to change their own pain than others are able to change their pain for them
RESOURCES
- Reframing Chronic Pain as a Disease, Not a Symptom: Rationale and Implications for Pain Management
- The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science, Norman Doidge
- Neuroplasticity and Pain: What Does it all Mean?
- Explain Pain Supercharged, G. Lorimer Moseley and David Butler
- The Neuroscience of Placebo Effects: Connecting Context, Learning, and Health
- Effect of Primary Care Based Education on Reassurance in Patients with Acute Low Back Pain: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
- The Effect of Neuroscience Education on Pain, Disability, Anxiety, and Stress in Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
- Chronic Pain Self-Management Support with Pain Science Education and Exercise (COMMENCE) for People with Chronic Pain and Multiple Comorbidities: A Randomized Controlled Trial
- Pain Reconceptualisation after Pain Neurophysiology Education in Adults with Chronic Low Back Pain: A Qualitative Study
