Books:

• ‘Manage your Pain’ – Nicholas, Molloy, Tonkin, & Beeston, 2011
• ‘Explain Pain’ – Butler & Mosley, Noigroup Publications, 2003
• ‘Why Does it Still Hurt? – How the power of knowledge can overcome chronic pain’ – Paul Biegler, Scribe Publications, 2023

Websites and Youtube Videos

Understanding Chronic Pain

• Neuroplasticity and Chronic Pain: http://painhealth.csse.uwa.edu.au/neuroplasticity.html
• Tame the Beast: https://www.tamethebeast.org/
• The mystery of chronic pain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6–CMhcCfQ
• Low Back Pain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOjTegn9RuY
• Lorimer Moseley ‘Body in mind – the role of the brain in chronic pain’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYoGXv22G3k
• Lorimer Moseley ‘Why Things Hurt’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwd-wLdIHjs

Emotional Wellbeing and Mindfulness

• 23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health? : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUaInS6HIGo
• Mindfulness and Pain: http://painhealth.csse.uwa.edu.au/pain-management-mindfulness-and-pain.html
• How Meditation Can Reshape Our Brains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8rRzTtP7Tc – 8 mins
• Becoming Conscious: The Science of Mindfulness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TeWvf-nfpA – 1hr
• Chronic pain management guided meditation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwiiWrt3Ld8 – 10mins
• Andy Puddicombe: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzR62JJCMBQ
• Unhelpful thinking habits: http://www.getselfhelp.co.uk/docs/UnhelpfulThinkingHabitsWithAlternatives.pdf
• http://www.beyondblue.org.au
• http://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/
• http://moodgym.anu.edu.au

Sleep

• Why do we sleep? : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWULB9Aoopc
• Guidelines for better sleep: http://media.psychology.tools/worksheets/english_us/guidelines_for_better_sleep_en-us.pdf

Medication

• One Simple Solution for Medication Safety: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2KCWMnXSt8
• Brain man stops his opioids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AACIGAG1V6Q

Free Smart Phone apps:

• Stop, breathe and think (mindfulness)
• Smiling Mind (mindfulness)
• Headspace (mindfulness)

Free Mindfulness audio:

http://www.livingwell.org.au/mindfulness-exercises-3/

https://soundcloud.com/hachetteaudiouk/sets/mindfulness-meditation/s-chcYB