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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Better Sleep: Pain Concern
A leaflet from Pain Concern providing information and advice about sleep for those who live with pain.
Opioids Aware
A resource for professionals explaining the latest guidance around opioid painkillers, information about prescribing and tools for patient conversations.
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.
Rethinking Pain: Movement Matters
Rethinking Pain are developing a series of Movement Matters videos for people who live with long-term pain, to support them to move more in ways that feel safe.
Live Well with Pain: Medicines
A free website for patients and practitioners providing medication resources, real stories, and support for reducing medication.
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.