Pain Explained Resources

Pain Explained Resources

Please see Pain Explained Course (live on Zoom) page.

Please see live online  MBSR for Pain course running Term 1 2025.

Complete this Expression of Interest form if you have osteoarthritis causing chronic pain and are interested in our FREE face-to-face course at Woonona Medical Practice in Term 4 2024.

Audiovisual modules by Adele, videos, handouts, books and articles for Pain Explained

Click here for References for modules

Handouts that go with audiovisual modules:
Protective Systems of the Body
Protectometer and DIM SIM’s
Twin peaks, flare ups and bioplasticity

Short Videos that go with audiovisual modules:
Pain as Buffer – fence at cliff metaphor 1 Grant McKechnie Pain Revolution (1.4 minutes)
Pain as Buffer – fence at cliff metaphor 2 Grant McKechnie Pain Revolution (2 minutes)
Brainmain stops his opioids Hunter Integrated Pain Service (HIPS) (3 minutes)
Rubber hand illusion (short video)

Short Excerpts from audiovisual modules & short videos:
Trauma and Pain (Adele’s 3-minute video)
Twin peaks, flare ups and bioplasticity (Adele’s 7-minute video)
The Pain Experience is emergent not linear: (Adele’s 7-minute video)
Neurogenic inflammation & neuro definitions (Adele 9 minute video)
Pain on hold (delayed pain) (Adele 4 minute video)

Other Modules:
Nerve Pain Explained module (80 minutes – Adele has done a nerve pain or neuropathic pain module of its own because it’s particularly tricky.)
Pelvic Pain Explained
Health Professional resources – Foot Pain Explained; Hand Pain Explained; IFS therapy and Pain

Donations
Donations for Adele’s resources are appreciated and go toward subsidising the formal, more expensive meditation courses such as MBSR and MSC. Click here to make a donation to the value of your choosing by PayPal or credit card.

Links and Research Studies
Pain reprocessing therapy study	This article at JAMA Psychiatry studies the Effect of Pain Reprocessing Therapy vs Placebo and Usual Care for Patients With Chronic Back Pain
Sensorimotor Retraining	ABC article on retraining the brain when it comes to chronic pain
NOI Group website	Neuro Orthopaedic Institute Australasia (Noigroup) is a privately owned education provider and publishing house that covers acute and chronic musculoskeletal, central and peripheral, and neuropathic pain states.
Lorimer Moseley TED Talk	Lorimer Moseley’s famous TED talk on Why Things Hurt. It’s really funny too!
Motivation Video – YOU CAN CHANGE YOU!	The amazing transformation of an Army veteran doing yoga – Never, Ever Give Up. Arthur’s Inspirational Transformation!
The “Reign of Pain” video	Dr. Schubiner’s 22-minute overview describing a new paradigm on pain entitled, “The Reign of Pain.”
Podcast with Lisa Feldman Barrett & Joe Tatta	Emotions And Pain: Advances In Neuroscience And Psychology With Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD. How emotion relates to chronic pain. Find out about predictive processing and the body budget. This has a transcript.
Dissolving Pain: Simple Brain-Training Exercises for Overcoming Chronic Pain By Les Fehmi By Jim Robbins	These Open Focus meditations are really worth practicing. They encourage us to move away from a rigid narrow focus (which we tend to have when our nervous system is in threat mode) to a wide open focus by practicing awareness of “space” both outside and inside our bodies. Some people find this relaxing and others even experience an altered state of consciousness with a profound change in relationship to difficult experience.
Podcast: Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris & Christiane Wolf.	Dr. Christiane Wolf is an MBSR, MSC teacher and physician. Her work is at the intersection of mindfulness, self compassion and chronic pain. She discusses her book How to Outsmart your Pain on this podcast.
Tasha Stanton OA YouTube link	Reframing pain for osteoarthritis: Associate Professor Tasha Stanton: Very important message.

Books
Explain Pain	David Butler and Lorimer Moseley (2013) – Further explanation on Chronic Pain in general, available from the NOI Group
The Explain Pain Handbook Protectometer	David Butler and Lorimer Moseley – available from the NOI Group
Heal Chronic Pain. The way out.	The Way Out by Alan Gordon- an easy to read guide to Pain Reprocessing Therapy
Outsmart your pain	Christiane Wolf “Outsmart your pain: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion to Help You Leave Chronic Pain Behind”: MBSR & MSC teacher Dr Wolf describes and guides practices. Comes with audio links to her guided meditations
Mindfulness Meditation for Pain relief	Jon Kabat Zinn “Mindfulness Meditation for Pain relief: Practices to Reclaim Your Body and Your Life”: a beautiful and inspiring little book with delightful, soothing to the nervous system illustrations

Adele’s Meditations relevant to Pain (see Meditations resource page for sources)
Unfocused Awareness of Body	Adele’s guided meditation (15 minutes)
Somatic Tracking for Pain Introduction	Adele’s guided meditation (4minutes)
Somatic Tracking for Pain	Adele’s guided meditation (13 minutes)
Progressive Muscular Relaxation	Adele’s Guided meditation (14 minutes)
Body Awareness with Feeling Tone	Adele’s Guided meditation (17 minutes)
I am not my Pain	Adele’s guided meditation (15 minutes)
The Pain Story	Adele’s guided meditation (16 minutes)
Untangling the Pain Knot	Adele’s guided meditation  (27 minutes)
Self-Compassion Break for Pain	Adele’s guided meditation (9 minutes)
You are Not Alone for Pain	Adele’s guided meditation (12 minutes)
Kindness Body Scan for Pain	Adele’s guided meditation (15 minutes)
Yes, There is Pain AND…	Adele’s guided meditation (13 minutes)
Body Awareness with Feeling Tone	Adele’s guided meditation (17 minutes)