PAIN MANAGEMENT SELF HELP RESOURCES

Mindfulness Meditations (free videos and audio files)

• Mindful Breathing Exercise (Every Mind Matters)

• UCLH Mindfulness Based Pain Management Meditations

• Bangor University Mindfulness and Meditation
  https://www.bangor.ac.uk/mindfulness/audio/index.php.en

Relaxation and Mindfulness Practice Apps

• Headspace
  • Aura
  • Breethe
  • Buddhify
  • Balance (free for first year)

Patient-Directed Websites

• The Pain Toolkithttps://www.paintoolkit.org/persistent-pain/what-is-it
  • Joleta Belton’s blog on living with chronic pain http://www.mycuppajo.com/
  • Tina’s blog on living well with pain http://livingwellpain.net/
  • The Unchartered Collective: A group of people who use art and performance to explore their pain. https://uncharteredcollective.com/
  • Brownie Thompson (helpful articles for patients and health care professionals)
    https://healthskills.wordpress.com/if-you-have-chronic-pain/

Websites for Understanding Pain and Developing Skills

• The Retrain Pain Foundation https://www.retrainpain.org/
  • Pain-ed http://www.pain-ed.com/
  • BodyinMind https://relief.news/category/body-in-mind/
  • Tame the Beast https://www.tamethebeast.org/
  • Living well with pain https://livewellwithpain.co.uk/
  • British Pain Society www.britishpainsociety.org
  • Pain Relief Foundation www.painrelieffoundation.org.uk
  • Pain Concern www.painconcern.org.uk

Videos about Pain

• Understanding pain in 5 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_3phB93rvI
  • Pain Explained by Central London Community Healthcare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B14_2TS7RHM&feature=youtu.be
  • Lorimer Moseley – Why Things Hurt (TEDx Talk) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwd-wLdIHjs
  • Tame the beast – It’s time to rethink persistent pain https://youtu.be/ikUzvSph7Z4
  • How does your brain respond to pain? – Karen D. Davis  https://youtu.be/I7wfDenj6CQ
  • Pain Scientists Answer Common Questions About Pain https://youtu.be/B6HKdZYylWs
  • Predictive processing as a theory to understand pain (TEDx Talk by Professor Mick Thacker) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXvR9zXpsYg&feature=youtu.be
  • Back pain with Prof Peter O’Sullivan https://youtu.be/dlSQLUE4brQ
  • Stress and chronic pain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM5hdlEOSFM
  • Mindfulness meditation and pain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLQJJDrbj6Q 
  • Research Spotlight: Why do we feel pain differently? Dr Janet Bultitude from the University of Bath/Centre for Pain Research  https://vimeo.com/272364899
  • Tamar Pincus: Psychology in People with Pain – Why it Matters (Part 1) https://youtu.be/N7vRyCW2XS0
  • Tamar Pincus: Psychology in People with Pain – Why it Matters (Part 2) https://youtu.be/PY4R19Rm94I
  • The mysterious science of pain – Joshua W. Pate https://youtu.be/eakyDiXX6Uc
  • Pain and Me: Tamar Pincus talks about chronic pain, acceptance and commitment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUXPqphwp2U&t=2s
  • How can you live well with chronic pain? Dr Bronnie Thompson https://youtu.be/s8LNeq-lYfU

Community Services

• Recovery College (West London NHS) www.westlondon.nhs.uk/our-services/adult/mental-health-services/recovery-college
  • IAPT Talking Therapy (West London NHS) www.westlondon.nhs.uk/our-services/adult/iapt/iapt-ealing/talking-therapies-iapt-ealing-service-referral
  • Cathja Barge – A space for art, creativity, and mental health www.cathja.org
  • Open Ealing – Creativity in Ealing www.openealing.com
  • Social care self-referral www.ealing.gov.uk/site/xfp/scripts/xforms_form.php?formID=293&language=en
  • 240 Project – Art and Wellbeing activity centre www.240project.org.uk

Books

• The Happiness Trap by Dr Russ Harris
  • Pain Heroes stories of hope and recovery by Alison Sim
  • Painful Yarns by Dr. Lorimer Moseley
  • Explain Pain by Dr. David S. Butler and Prof Lorimer Moseley
  • Why do I hurt? by Dr. Adrian Louw 
  • The brain that changes itself: Stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science by Norman Doidge
  • The Body Keeps the Score by Dr. Bessel Van der Kolk
  • Living with You Enemy by Dr Ray Owen
  • Manage your Pain by Dr Michael Nicholas, Dr Alan Molloy, Lois Tonkin & Lee Beeston
  • Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence by Gavin Francis