Understanding Pain
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Understanding your pain – why you feel it and what you may do about it, is an important step towards pain treatment and developing healthy coping strategies. Research shows that understanding the purpose of your pain has a positive impact on your recovery. Pain left unmanaged can be an isolating and stressful experience. It is important to understand the purpose of your pain as it relates to your medical diagnosis and work with therapists who appreciate how pain may interrupt your roles, habits and routines.
Consulting with your rehabilitation team (physician, nurse, OT, PT, SLP, Psychologist) is an important first step. They will collaborate with you to determine a comprehensive and holistic approach to treating your pain.
We look forward to partnering with you at the
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Pain Management Center
Websites
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American Chronic Pain Association
See their many pain management resources for identifying and caring for your pain plan with support, videos, and relaxation audio.
Phone: 913.991.4740
Choose PT This site gives all the benefits of culminating the best science based resources for pain, avoiding opiods, and why you should choose physical therapy as a main modality of pain relief solutions.
No phone number listed
NIH-DoD-VA Pain Management Collaboratory
Learn more about nonpharmacological therapies, talking points, opioid usage, good pain care plans, and the whole health model.
No phone number listed
Pain after Spinal Cord Injury - Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center
A short informative online video slide show to inform on pain with SCI.
Phone: 202.403.5600
Tame The Beast This site brings together easy to understand information for patients from a collaboration between a pain scientist (LM), a pain physiotherapist (DM) and a professional communicator (SC).
No phone number listed.
Books
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A World of Hurt: A Guide to Classifying Pain (2015) by, Melissa Kolski & Annie O’Connor
Why Do I Hurt? : A Patient Book About the Neuroscience of Pain (2013) by, Adriaan Louw
Videos
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Brainman: Understanding pain (5 min)
Tame The Beast (Lorimer Mosley)
What Pain is Complex - The Overflowing Cup Analogy of Pain by Greg Lehman
This content is for informational purposes only and may not be comprehensive. Information contained does not imply an endorsement from Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, and does not replace the advice of a qualified healthcare professional. See here for further details.
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