Resources
The following list is full of trusted information and tools to help understand pain and options for recovery. The majority are free and open to everyone!
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Understanding pain in less than ten minutes
A Rethinking Pain animation explaining persistent pain.
Setting Goals: Northern Pain Centre
Northern Pain Centre’s ‘12 Quick Tips’ series includes short and punchy advice on how to set goals related to pain management.
The Pain Free Mindset
Pain Consultant Dr Deepak Ravindran’s book provides practical techniques for pain management based on his years of experience in the field.
Aches & Pains
Louis Gifford’s famous works are as accessible to laypeople as to clinicians.
Explain Pain: Supercharged
A manual full of immediately practical information to help clinicians better understand the treatment of pain and how to help people rethink, re-engage and recover.
Painful Yarns
A collection of metaphors and stories to help you understand and explain pain.
Diet: Northern Pain Centre
Northern Pain Centre’s ‘12 Quick Tips’ series includes short and punchy advice on how to improve your diet and nutrition.
Living Beyond Your Pain
Joanne Dahl’s textbook that demonstrates how pain impacts our life and how acceptance and commitment therapy works.
NHS Fitness Studio
Expert-led videos across a range of categories, from aerobics exercise, strength and resistance, to pilates and yoga.
PainTRAINER
8 free sessions that teach you effective strategies to manage your pain, including mindfulness, goal setting and acceptance and commitment therapy.
The Pain Toolkit
A free website run by Pete Moore, containing video tools around activity, goal setting and medications.
Flippin’ Pain Formula
Animations, podcasts, infographics, and quizzes that will help change the way you think about pain.
Why things hurt
Lorimer Moseley explores these questions, and position the pain that we feel as our body's way of protecting us from damaging tissues further.
If Only I’d Known…
A Flippin’ pain leaflet written by people living with pain for people living with pain, highlighting things they wish they’d known before.
Dr Deepak Ravindran
Dr Deepak’s YouTube channel explores a range of pain conditions, different symptoms, and explains the different techniques that can help.
Rethinking Pain: a healthy diet
Information on how to eat well and make positive changes to benefit your pain, health conditions, weight management and quality of life.
Curable
Curable is an app that helps you connect the dots between what’s happening in your brain, in your body, and in your life, to get a full picture of what’s causing your symptoms and how to relieve them.
Curable has a monthly subscription fee: however you can try Curable for 6 weeks for free using our link. Please note: Flippin’ Pain will get a small affiliate payment if you use this link (so a great way to support us!).
LEAP: tapering advice
If you’re thinking about reducing your use of strong painkillers, please speak to your health professional first. The Lived Experience Advisory Panel for Prescribed Drug Dependence (LEAP) also has a range of resources picked by professionals and people who have been through tapering themselves.
Postgraduate Courses
Various UK universities run Pain focussed MSc courses, which can be found on the FindAMasters website.