General:
- Pain Management Network. This website is designed to help you gain a better understanding of your pain.
- It’s time to rethink persistent pain. Watch the video to learn how.
- Pain Australia fact sheets.
- The Pelvic Pain Foundation.
Arthritis:
Fibromyalgia:
- Fibroguide. An education and self-management resource supporting a patient-centric model of chronic pain care. University of Michigan.
- More Good Days. Evidence-based pain management program to help understand your fibromyalgia, reduce symptoms, and improve emotional well-being all from the comfort of home.
Medication:
- Opioids. Information about opioids and chronic non-cancer pain.
Books we recommend:
- ‘Explain Pain’ by Lorimer Moseley & David Butler which can be a useful resource.
- The Explain Pain Handbook: Protectometer book by David S. Butler and G. Lorimer Moseley.
- “Manage Your Pain” by Michael Nicholas et al from the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney (available on Amazon or HarperCollins)
Useful videos:
- Understanding your pain in less than 5 mins. – A short (5min) video that explains chronic pain and the self-management tools for managing it.
- Understanding pain: brainman stops his opioids. – A short (1min 45sec) animation on what happens when you stop taking your opioids.
- Pain, the brain and your amazing protectometer. – This talk by Lorimer Moseley (1hr 23min) explains why pain persists and why your brain becomes overprotective to the pain the body feels. It goes through proven tools to retrain your pain system.
- Why things hurt. – A short (14min 32sec) TED talk from Lorimer Moseley explaining why the pain we feel protects us from further damage.
- The mystery of chronic pain. – A short (8min 29sec) TED talk on chronic pain, our nervous system, and the feedback loops.