Below are numerous resources for healthcare consumers, clinicians and researchers who wish to learn more about modern recovery strategies, tips & tricks and helpful hints to make the recovery journey more enjoyable and less frustrating.

Resources

Perception / Emotion / Consciousness Resources
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain―How We Create Emotions Through Brain, Body, and Culture
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
Surfing Uncertainty Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind
The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition
The Embodied Mind Cognitive Science and Human Experience

Pain Science Education

Pain: The Science of Suffering (Maps of the Mind)
Louis Gifford Aches and Pains Book One: Aches and Pains Sections 1-14

Tame The Beast — It's time to rethink persistent pain and how to recover.

Understanding Pain in less than 5 minutes, and what to do about it!

Neuroplasticity - A tour of the brain through a series of animations.

Mindfulness Resources

Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition) Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
The Miracle of Mindfulness An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
MINDFULNESS FAQ Frequently asked questions about mindfulness explored and discussed here.

Frequently asked questions about mindfulness explored and discussed here | Hang Ruan

(Audio) Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief | Jon Kabat-Zinn

Free guided mindfulness practice app

Mindfulness Coach App

 

External Links

International Association for the Study of Pain
US Pain Foundation
Arthritis Foundation

New/Useful Pain Research

Easy to Harm, Hard to Heal. Patient Views About the Back
Long-term opioid therapy unsettles us both coming and going
Chronic Pain: Structural and Functional Changes in Brain Structures and Associated Negative Affective States
What is known and what is still unknown within chronic musculoskeletal pain? A systematic evidence and gap map
Are Invasive Procedures Effective for Chronic Pain? A Systematic Review
Opportunities for chronic pain self-management: core psychological principles and neurobiological underpinnings
Lumbar MRI and Back Pain After Failed Conservative Treatment: The RuDDS Study
The High-Risk Model of Threat Perception Modulates Learning of Placebo and Nocebo Effects and Functional Somatic Disorders
The Last Four Centuries of Pain: Philosophical Roots, Physiological Discoveries, and the Neurocognitive Frontiers of Treatments
Prevalence and Profile of High-Impact Chronic Pain
Hypervigilance to Pain May Predict the Transition from Subacute to Chronic Back Pain: A Longitudinal Observational Study
The role of sensory attenuation in symptomatic and healthy individuals: a scoping review
The RESOLVE Trial for people with chronic low back pain: protocol for a randomised clinical trial
The number of central nervous system-driven symptoms predicts subsequent chronic primary pain: evidence from UK Biobank
The Fit-for-Purpose Model: Conceptualizing and Managing Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain as an Information Problem
Common interventional procedures for chronic non-cancer spine pain: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised trials
Review: Opioid system and human emotions
Human pain neuroscience and the next generation of pain therapeutics
Pain Mechanisms in Osteoarthritis: Understanding the Role of Central Pain and Current Approaches to Its Treatment
The Enduring Impact of What Clinicians Say to People With Low Back Pain
An Embodied Predictive Processing Theory of Pain Experience
Does Active Inference Provide a Comprehensive Theory of Placebo Analgesia?
Getting the pain you expect: mechanisms of placebo, nocebo and reappraisal effects in humans
REVIEW Pain: A Statistical Account
Reductions in Perceived Injustice are Associated with Reductions in Pain Catastrophizing in Individuals with Low Back Pain
Beyond Inflammation: Why Understanding the BrainMatters in Inflammatory Arthritis
Controllability changes pain perception by increasing the precision of expectations

Movement Resources

Aquatic Therapy

General Activity

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Low Back Pain Rehab Recommendations

Sit Less. Move More.

Yoga For Health

Exercise For Arthritis

Frozen Shoulder

How To Get Moving

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