You snatch your hand away from the hot thing immediately. Lorimer Moseley.Īn expert explores the nature of pain: why it hurts and why some pain is good and some pain is bad.
Noigroup Publications (2013), 133 pages, 90+ illustrations and diagrams, half-canadian wire bound. Lorimer and David have subtly changed some of the language so that the second edition can be delivered with much more authority than the first. In the last 10 years there has been increasing support for therapeutic neuroscience education from clinical trials, educational science, neuroscience, plain logic and the failure of drug therapy on chronic pain outcomes. Why a second edition? A decade of scientific research is a lot – and we need to keep on top of it. Once they have learnt about the processes involved they can follow a scientific route to recovery.
Explain Pain aims to give people in pain the power to challenge pain and to consider new models for viewing what happens to your body and brain during pain. Co-author Dr David Butler, founder of the Neuro Orthopaedic Institute, says that "it is no longer acceptable that pain be just managed: we must expect that it can be treated, and sufferers can alter it themselves through education." Explain Pain has sold around 60,000 copies world-wide in 5 languages and continues to inspire clinical research and multidisciplinary pain treatment globally. In everyday language accompanied by quirky illustrations, Explain Pain Second Edition discusses how pain responses are produced by the brain, how responses to injury from the autonomic motor and immune systems in your body contribute to pain, and why pain can persist after tissues have had plenty of time to heal. Recent advances in fields such as neurophysiology, brain imaging, immunology, psychology and cellular biology have provided an explanatory platform from which to explore pain. It is now known that understanding more about why things hurt can actually help treat pain. In a world where 1 in 5 of us experience ongoing pain and where there is increasing evidence for the failure of synthetic drugs, take heart: help is at hand. All pain is real, and for many people it is a debilitating part of everyday life. Solid evidence now shows that knowing why we hurt will help us heal. In this brand new book, with entirely original content, Moseley and Butler apply their unique style to take the neuroimmune science of pain further and deeper, enriching your core knowledge while providing immediately applicable education strategies, conceptual change science, curriculum development and hundreds of ready to use clinical metaphors and therapeutic narratives. After countless conversations about Explain Pain with clinicians, patients, health departments, sports people, politicians and artists, Lorimer and David have written this text in response to the most often asked questions: - Where can I learn more? - How can I incorporate all the tough new scientific literature into my everyday practice to Explain Pain to my patients/family/friends/health professionals? - How do I identify what patients need to know and how do I best pass it on to others, and where can I learn the best skills for delivery? Explain Pain Supercharged is for all health professionals treating pain and indeed anyone teaching people about pain.
Research studies show impressive results that can no longer be ignored. Explaining Pain has since become a global tour de force. Butler and Moseley launched a revolution back in 2003 with Explain Pain, now the best selling pain text of all time.