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!

If you’d like to help promote our work, visit our ‘Signposting to Flippin’ Pain’ page.

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Explain Pain

A beautifully presented book for people living with pain written by David Butler and Lorimer Moseley.

Live Well With Pain

A free website providing resources designed to help you learn skills to become an effective self-manager of your pain.

The Painful Truth

Monty Lyman is a doctor with experience of persistent pain himself. In this book he shares the science that helped him understand pain better.

The Sweet Zone

A Flippin’ pain leaflet written by pain experts, discussing the best ways to get moving if you have persistent pain.

Partnering Pain

Partnering Pain is an online community for those living with pain. It’s a free, positive and private place to share thoughts, ideas and the very latest in pain education.

KnowPain

A booklet explaining persistent pain and what might help.

The Body Keeps The Score

Bessel van der Kolk shares how our past experiences can shape our mental and physical health in the present.

Exercising when it hurts

Tom Jesson is a physiotherapist living in Texas. His article, ‘Exercising when it hurts’ is meant to help you to become more fit and active despite your pain.

Better Sleep: Pain Concern

A leaflet from Pain Concern providing information and advice about sleep for those who live with 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.

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.

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.

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.

BeeFree

A free support website for people with experiencing pain and mental health struggles.

Painkillers Don’t Exist

If you’re thinking about reducing your use of strong painkillers, please speak to your health professional first. The Painkillers Don’t Exist campaign has a range of resources picked by professionals and people who have been through tapering themselves.

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Flare Ups: NSW Government

Even with a successful pain management plan in place, flare ups can happen. This guide can help you create a plan for if and when flare-ups occur.

Live Well with Pain: Health and Wellbeing Check

An interactive questionnaire that can help you understand how pain is affecting you, obstacles and changes you want to make.

Pain science workbook

A workbook providing information about pain and what you can do to self-manage.

Pacing: NSW Government

Pacing is all about finding ‘the sweet zone’ of not doing too much, but not too little either. This guide from NSW Government can help you set out your own pacing plan.

PainTRAINER

8 free sessions that teach you effective strategies to manage your pain, including mindfulness, goal setting and acceptance and commitment therapy.

My Pain Concerns

A downloadable document from Pain Concern that can help in appointments.

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!).

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Somatic Tracking: Curable

Somatic tracking is a mindfulness technique that has been shown to help with pain. It involves observing bodily sensations without judgement.

Flippin’ Pain Formula

Animations, podcasts, infographics, and quizzes that will help change the way you think about pain.

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.

Airing Pain

A podcast that brings together people in pain and top specialists to talk about the resources which can help, created by Pain Concern.

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Pain and me

A video about acceptance and commitment therapy, a process aimed at reducing the ‘battle’ with pain and taking committed action to move towards your values.

We Are Undefeatable

A website supporting people with long term health conditions to find ways to be active that work for you.

The mysterious science of pain

A TED talk explaining the ‘nail in boot’ story, created by Joshua Pate.

Tanner Murtagh: Flare Ups

Tanner Murtagh is a Canadian therapist who makes videos on chronic pain and symptoms. In this video, he explores seven things you can do during a pain flare up.

Pain Association Scotland: Pacing

A video all about pacing by Pain Association Scotland.

Understanding pain in less than ten minutes

A Rethinking Pain animation explaining persistent pain.

NHS Fitness Studio

Expert-led videos across a range of categories, from aerobics exercise, strength and resistance, to pilates and yoga.

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.

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.

Dr Deepak Ravindran

Dr Deepak’s YouTube channel explores a range of pain conditions, different symptoms, and explains the different techniques that can help.

Flippin’ Pain webinars

All previous Flippin’ Pain webinars can be found on our ‘Watch Back’ page.

The cartilage story

A YouTube video all about cartilage and the myth of ‘wear and tear’.

Brainman stops his opioids

Brainman is back for a video less than 2 minutes long that explains why opioids are no longer recommended for persistent pain. Talk about value per second!

Resources for Professionals

Resources

Signposting to Flippin’ Pain

We appreciate any help spreading the word about Flippin’ Pain! You can find guidance and resources for sharing information here.

Mind your Flippin’ Language!

A presentation by Cormac all about the power of language and metaphor.

Opioids Aware

A resource for professionals explaining the latest guidance around opioid painkillers, information about prescribing and tools for patient conversations.

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.

Live Well with Pain: Medicines

A free website for patients and practitioners providing medication resources, real stories, and support for reducing medication.

Dr Deepak Ravindran

Dr Deepak’s YouTube channel explores a range of pain conditions, different symptoms, and explains the different techniques that can help.

Postgraduate Courses

Various UK universities run Pain focussed MSc courses, which can be found on the FindAMasters website.

Physio Matters

A Podcast with the brains behind KnowPain, Mike Stewart, exploring the use of metaphor and the biopsychosocial approach.

EFIC: myths about moving

A infographic with information on five key myths about moving, to help professionals with consultations.

The Wellness Puzzle

Flippin’ Pain’s Mahin has his own channel, ‘The Wellness Puzzle’ on YouTube. His series for health professionals gives his top tips for working with persistent pain.

Noigroup Clinical Discussions

A YouTube channel for clinicians on how to confidently apply the learning from books like Explain Pain.

Pain Education? Good Move!

Our awareness campaign focusing on the power of pain education, particularly in conversations about moving more.

Permission to Move

A book and training course for clinicians who are looking to integrate modern pain science into practice.

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