Understanding chronic pain resources
If you are wanting to learn more about chronic pain, this section includes:
- Resources for understanding chronic pain
- Resources for understanding central sensitisation
- Resources for understanding the gate control theory of pain
- Pain terminology
Chronic Pain Resources
- Booklet: Understanding persistent pain. Learn how to turn the volume down on persistent pain (link)
- Booklet: Recovery Strategies. Pain guidebook (link)
- Booklet: Explains Pain (link)
- Booklet: Cor-kinetics: Living well with pain (link)
- Website: NPC: Understanding Chronic Pain (link)
- Booklet: Living with Persistent Pain (link)
- Article: Chronic Pain Australia: The role of the nervous system in the experience of chronic pain (link)
- Website: My Live Well with Pain (link)
- Factsheet: 10 footsteps: Your journey to living well with pain (link)
- Website: Tame the Beast (link)
- Website: Flippin’ Pain (link)
- Website: The Pain Management Network (link)
- Website: Pain Australia (link)
- Website: Retrain Pain Foundation (link)
- Website: The Pain Toolkit (link)
- Website: Chronic Pain Australia (link)
- Website: Faculty of Pain Medicine (link)
- Website: Australian Pain Management Association (link)
- Website: Institute for Chronic Pain (link)
- Website: Know Your Pain (link)
- Website: Pain Out Loud (link)
- Website: NSW Health: Useful Links for Pain Management (link)
- Online Course: This Way Up (link)
- Online Course: Control My Pain (link)
- Online Course: Reconnect2Life (link)
- Free Online Course: Mindspot (link)
- Free Online Course: PainTrainer (link)
- Free Online Course: Pain Course (link)
- Book: Explain pain. David Butler and Lorimer Moseley (link)
- Book: Manage your pain. Practical and positive ways of adapting to chronic pain. Dr Michael Nicholas, Dr Alan Molloy, Lois Tonkin and Lee Beeston (link)
- Book: The pain book. Finding hope when it hurts. Philip Siddall, Rebecca Mccabe and Robin Murray (link)
- Book: Painful Yarns. Lorimer Moseley (link)
- Book: Rewire your pain. Dr Stephanie Davies, Dr Nicholas Cooke & Julia Sutton (link)
Central Sensitisation Resources
- Factsheet: ICP: Central Sensitisation (link)
- Factsheet: Pain Science: Central Sensitisation (link)
- Article: Pathways: Central Sensitisation in Chronic Pain (link)
- Article: Physiopedia: Central Sensitisation (link)
Gate Control Theory Resources
- Factsheet: Centre for Integrated Healthcare: The Gate Control Theory of Pain (link)
- Article: How stuff works: How Pain Works. The Gate Control Theory of Pain (link)