Explain Pain 2nd Edn.

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Noigroup Publications, 2013 - 133 Seiten
Solid evidence now shows that knowing why we hurt will help us heal. 

All pain is real, and for many people it is a debilitating part of everyday life. In a world where 1 in 5 of us experience ongoing pain and where there is increasing evidence for the failure of synthetic drugs, take heart: help is at hand. It is now known that understanding more about why things hurt can actually help treat pain.

Recent advances in fields such as neurophysiology, brain imaging, immunology, psychology and cellular biology have provided an explanatory platform from which to explore pain. In everyday language accompanied by quirky illustrations, Explain Pain Second Edition discusses how pain responses are produced by the brain, how responses to injury from the autonomic motor and immune systems in your body contribute to pain, and why pain can persist after tissues have had plenty of time to heal.

Co-author Dr David Butler, founder of the Neuro Orthopaedic Institute, says that "it is no longer acceptable that pain be just managed: we must expect that it can be treated, and sufferers can alter it themselves through education."

Explain Pain has sold around 60,000 copies world-wide in 5 languages and continues to inspire clinical research and multidisciplinary pain treatment globally. Explain Pain aims to give people in pain the power to challenge pain and to consider new models for viewing what happens to your body and brain during pain. Once they have learnt about the processes involved they can follow a scientific route to recovery. 

Why a second edition?

A decade of scientific research is a lot – and we need to keep on top of it.

In the last 10 years there has been increasing support for therapeutic neuroscience education from clinical trials, educational science, neuroscience, plain logic and the failure of drug therapy on chronic pain outcomes. Lorimer and David have subtly changed some of the language so that the second edition can be delivered with much more authority than the first.

Noigroup Publications (2013), 133 pages, 90+ illustrations and diagrams, half-canadian wire bound. ISBN: 978-0-9873426-6-9
Authors: Dr David S. Butler and Prof G. Lorimer Moseley.
 

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s e c t i o n
Section
Introduction 10 Pain is normal 12 Amazing pain stories Part
Pain relies on context Part 1
The phantom in the body
Age gender culture and pain
Section 2
A closer look at alarm signals
system alarms 72 Altered central nervous system alarms the spinal cord
The spinal cord as a magnifier of tissue reality
The brain adapts and tries to help
The orchestra plays the pain tune
Thoughts and beliefs are nerve impulses
The sensitised central alarm system
Response systems the sympathetic
parasympathetic nervous system

Sending messages
The alarm message meets the spinal cord
The message is processed throughout the brain
The orchestra in the brain
Systems to get you out of trouble
Section 3
Acid and inflammation in the tissues
More danger bang for your injury buck The dorsal root ganglion the peripheral 48 50
The truth about muscles
Get to know your LAFTs
Get to know your skin and soft tissues
Bone and joint contributions to pain
The peripheral nerves
nerves minibrain
Backfiring nerves
What you might notice with peripheral nerve problems
Section 4
The endocrine response
The immune system
Movement strategies
Section 5
Models of engagement
The clinical decisionmaking model
Threats hide in hard to spot places
How are you travelling?
Whats your style?
Your relationship with pain
Section 6
Education and understanding
Pacing and graded exposure
Accessing the virtual body
References
Index
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Autoren-Profil (2013)

David is an international freelance educator, director of the Neuro Orthopaedic Institute and senior lecturer at the University of South Australia. Current professional interests include the integration of pain sciences into undergraduate and postgraduate curricula. He is the author of Mobilisation of the Nervous System (1991), The Sensitive Nervous System (2000), plus chapters in numerous other well known texts about pain and manual therapy. David is the prime motivating force behind the innovative ‘Neurodynamic and the Neuromatrix’ conferences. Lorimer’s interests lie in the role of the brain and mind in chronic pain. He was appointed Nuffield Fellow at Oxford University in 2004. In 2007, he won the Inaugural IASP Ulf Lindblom Award, given to the top clinical scientist under 40 working in a pain related field. Lorimer is now Professor of Clinical Neurosciences and the Inaugural Chair in Physiotherapy at the University of South Australia, Adelaide. While leading the Body in Mind research groups there and at Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, Lorimer continues to publish and present widely.

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