Welcome to our pain resource page

We are committed to helping as many people as possible get out of pain. The resources below are a crowdsourcing of wisdom of all the best and brightest minds in the chronic/neuroplastic pain field.

HERE IS WHERE TO START!

• Lorimer Moseley - Why Things Hurts
• Sean Hansen's Reload Podcast with Charlie Merrill "Why Pain Is Weird"
• "The Reign Of Pain" Lecture by Dr Howard Schubiner, MD at MSU
• Effect of Pain Reprocessing Therapy vs Placebo and Usual Care for Patients With Chronic Back Pain
• Unintended consequences: quantifying the benefits, iatrogenic harms and downstream cascade costs of musculoskeletal MRI in UK primary care

Clinical Research (RCTs) Linking Pain and Emotions

• Ashar et al, 2021. JAMA Psychiatry. Effect of Pain Reprocessing Therapy vs Placebo and Usual Care for Patients With Chronic Back Pain. A Randomized Clinical Trial.
• Lumley et al, 2017. Pain. Emotional awareness and expression therapy,cognitive behavioral therapy, and education for fibromyalgia: a cluster-randomized controlled trial.
• Donnino et al 2021. Pain. Psychophysiologic symptom relief therapy for chronic back pain: a pilot randomized controlled trial.
• Fersum et al 2012. European Journal of Pain. Efficacy of classification-based cognitive functional therapy in patients with non-specific chronic low back pain: A randomized controlled trial

New / Trending Resources

• NY Times Pain Brain Collection
• Surgery for musculoskeletal pain indicated?
• Running Risk Factors?
• Contrary to several long-held beliefs, flexibility, arch height, quadriceps angle, rearfoot motion, lower extremity strength, weekly mileage, footwear, and previous injury are not significant etiologic factors across all overuse running injuries.
• Open Label Placebo: Psychology Today Article
• Neuroscientists Outline a 2 step process to learn or unlearn almost anything