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    Understand Pain Live Well Again: Life Is Now (Tm)
    Understand Pain Live Well Again: Life Is Now (Tm)
    Understand Pain Live Well Again: Life Is Now (Tm)
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    Understand Pain Live Well Again: Life Is Now (Tm)

    By Neil Pearson

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    This book offers people and busy practitioners an additional tool with which to better understand their clients pain neurophysiology and pain management education.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateApr 1, 2007
    ISBN9781483554044
    Understand Pain Live Well Again: Life Is Now (Tm)

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      This is an excellent book on pain. It's easy to read and very informative.

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    Understand Pain Live Well Again - Neil Pearson

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    Introduction

    The information you are about to read was written to provide health care practitioners with an additional tool for educating their patients with pain. Many times I have been asked for a handout to go along with my Overcome Pain, Live Well Again education seminars, and even more times clinicians have asked me if there is something that will help them educate their clients… without it taking so much time! Traditionally, pain neurophysiology education takes two to three hours. It is perceived by many as expensive and inefficient, even though the research shows it can be highly beneficial.

    Much of the information presented in this book draws from knowledge I have gained from Lorimer Moseley and David Butler. These two physiotherapists and educators have provided many original concepts about pain neurophysiology in their excellent book Explain Pain. A number of their ideas are paraphrased here, including the powerful therapeutic question, How dangerous is this really?, and the concept of discussing input from the nociceptive system as danger signals. It is imperative that clinicians clearly understand these concepts. We must be able to discuss pain neurophysiology easily with our clients, and make the information relevant to their situation. Any clinician setting out to educate people about pain should own Explain Pain, be intimate with its contents, and have it available for their clients.

    I also need to thank Lorimer Moseley for concepts and anecdotes I have learned from him during numerous lectures in Vancouver, and which he presents in his book, Painful Yarns. The turning point for many clients often comes from discussions of how pain is like vision, and how pain is like thirst. Making these ideas relevant to the person in pain empowers them with an understanding of their ability to effectively perform pain self-management techniques.

    This CD ROM offers busy practitioners an additional tool (to Explain Pain and Painful Yarns) with which to provide their clients pain neurophysiology and pain management education. You have the option of printing off the most appropriate sections for your client, or providing a copy of all ten sections. With the purchase of this CD ROM, you have the right to print its contents specifically for education of your clients. You also have the right to sell the complete printed copy to your client for up to $20, or provide it to your client for no fee.

    Please do not expect that your client will receive an effective education if you just give them this information to read. Get to know your client. Weave their history and pain neurophysiology education together. Use the questions on pages XX to discuss how this information is relevant to their situation. When clients are having a difficult time understanding, provide them with stories such as those in Painful Yarns, or ones you have learned from other clients. You will find that people with more complex pain problems benefit the most when you can make the education process individually relevant.

    I have no doubt that these ten sections will be effective for helping to follow-up and consolidate the knowledge of those clients who have received one-on-one education in such places as multidisciplinary pain management centres, or who have participated in larger group education classes.

    This information will also be of value to people with persistent pain. Although it is not meant as a self-help workbook, the questions could be used in a self-exploration manner. For those using this information without the guidance of a clinician, I offer two suggestions. After you read each section, take some time and write down how this information is relevant to your particular situation, and how this knowledge will change what you do to recover. Second, do what you can to find a practitioner who can help, coach and support you in your recovery process.

    I believe that health care practitioners can provide the knowledge and guidance to assist people to decrease their pain, increase their function and improve their quality of life. These ten sections are but one tool to assist in our efforts. I have included a list of other important resources later in the book.

    I hope you will use this information with as many clients as possible. The CD ROM format was developed to make it as easy and as inexpensive as possible for you to pass this information to your clients.

    I also hope you will suggest to your colleagues that they purchase their own CD ROM. Considerable work and time goes into such an endeavour as this. Hopefully health care providers will find the cost of respecting the copyright within their reach.

    I would be entirely remiss if I did not acknowledge the invaluable lessons I learned from the patients and health care practitioners at OrionHealth Vancouver. This center offered me the chance to practice pain management education, and refine many techniques I learned from the work of Lorimer Moseley and David Butler.

    My biggest thanks goes to those people with pain who continue to confirm and disprove our ‘knowledge’ gained from scientific research. The science of one is as important to clinicians as gold standard research. I have learned the most from people who come to me for help.

    …life is now…

    Section 1

    The Purpose of Pain

    KEY MESSAGES:

    •   Pain is one of the protective mechanisms of your body.
    •   The pain alarm system is complex, adaptable and always changing.
    •   Typically, the system responds when there is damage to the body and when something potentially dangerous is happening to the body.
    •   The pain alarm system does not work very much like simple alarm
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