Persistent Pain Resources
If you have pain of any location, type, severity, duration, or recurrence (including the “injury that never healed”), here are some resources to guide your pain literacy:
Method Health Articles:
General Pain Education Websites:
Podcasts Pain Education:
Pain Education YouTube videos:
Lived experiences:
Books we recommend:
Apps we recommend:
Our favourite article about understanding your beliefs and behaviour influence on pain severity and resolution:
Fifteen Years of Explaining Pain: The Past, Present, and Future - The Journal of Pain
Is It Time to Reframe How Health Care Professionals Label Musculoskeletal Conditions?
50 Years of Research on the Psychology of Sport Injury: A Consensus Statement | Sports Medicine
Series on changing your lifestyle to manage and prevent severe flare-up of pain
A paradigm shift from a tissue- and disease-based approach towards multimodal lifestyle interventions for chronic pain: 5 steps to guide clinical reasoning - PMC + The importance of stress in the paradigm shift from a tissue- and disease-based pain management approach towards multimodal lifestyle interventions for chronic pain - PMC + The importance of sleep in the paradigm shift from a tissue- and disease-based pain management approach towards multimodal lifestyle interventions for chronic pain - PMC
How the "overmedicalisation" of pain can lead to persistence:
Pain biology:
What are the “neuro-immune” adaptations explaining persistent pain?
Normal rates of symptom resolution for common complaints:
Managing short-term pain or "injury" “flare-ups:
See our Method Health PEACE and LOVE article, which is the more updated version of this article - Soft-tissue injuries simply need PEACE and LOVE | British Journal of Sports Medicine
Chris Bleakley - "RICE, PRICE, POLICE - What's in and what's out?"
Some good guides for if you should seek hospital-based care- Self Care - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire
Is pain safe during exercise?:
Should Rehab Be Pain-Free? - E3 Rehab + 187. Should Rehab Be Pain Free? w/ Marc Surdyka, Nathan Henderson, and Chris Hughen
HOW to start resuming meaningful activities even when they hurt
Exercising when it hurts. A step by step guide | by Tom Jesson | Medium
029 Talking About Avoid or Exp... - The NAF Physio Podcast - Apple Podcasts
Does Exercise Need To Be Specific - The Modern Pain Podcast - Apple Podcasts
Symmetry and future pain:
Pain and weakness - cause or just consequence?:
Should you improve flexibility to improve your pain:
Managing other symptoms common (and arguable normal) for those with persistent pain:
Seeking massage, needling or other forms of manual therapy for persistent pain?:



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