Explain Pain Supercharged

Explain Pain Supercharged

For clinicians and anyone working with pain patients,  Explain Pain Supercharged  offers the latest background information on neuroimmune science, conceptual change theory, and educational science; everything that is required to use the Explain Pain suite of tools to deliver optimal outcomes for individuals experiencing chronic pain.

The understanding of pain is a powerful adjunct to physical medicine and rehabilitation. In this book, authors Lorimer Moseley and David Butler apply their unique style to take the neuroimmune science of pain further than ever before, providing a deep understanding of the neuroimmune biology of pain with over 100 ready-to-use clinical metaphors and therapeutic narratives.

Includes Up-to-Date Scientific and Educational Strategies

Combining educational science, conceptual change theory, metaphor use and curriculum development,  Explain Pain Supercharged  delivers a comprehensive basis for the optimal treatment of pain, merging up-to-date scientific and educational strategies. This guide gives clinicians both the knowledge and the ‘how to’ of Explain Pain, providing the tools to deliver effective, individualized pain education and treatment.

In Explain Pain Supercharged you’ll learn:

• to question your own theories, form solid theories, and set up a methodical way of thinking
• to recognize metaphors and learn how to enrich them as part of your therapeutic narrative
• the intricacies of the somatosensory system including the role of all skin receptors, ion channels, nociceptors, neuroimmune coupling, inflammation, and central sensitization 2.0
• to develop a collection of easily adaptable therapeutic narratives that translate complex science into digestible nuggets
• how to find out which level of misconception the learner holds and how to target your individual education to them
• how to adapt and create new Explain Pain curricula for your own special situations

About the Authors

Lorimer Moseley, _{AO, DSc, PhD, BPhty (Hons), FAAHMS, FACP, Hon FFPMANZCA, Hon MAPA}

Dr. Lorimer Moseley is a clinician, scientist and educator, whose research investigates the role of the brain and mind in chronic pain disorders. He leads a non-profit organization called Pain Revolution and is the author of more than 400 research articles and seven books.

David Butler, _{EdD, MPhty, BPhty, Hon MAPA}

Dr. David Butler is a physiotherapist, an educationalist, a researcher and a clinician. He serves as an adjunct associate professor at the University of South Australia and his current focus is on adult conceptual change, diagnostic and therapeutic metaphors and pain storytelling.

Lorimer Moseley, left, and David Butler, right

From the Back Cover

Butler and Moseley launched a revolution back in 2003 with Explain Pain, now the bestselling pain text of all time. Explaining Pain has since become a global tour de force. Research studies show impressive results that can no longer be ignored. After countless conversations about Explain Pain with clinicians, patients, health departments, sports people, politicians and artists,

Lorimer and David have written this text in response to the most often asked questions: Where can I learn more? How can I incorporate all the tough new scientific literature into my everyday practice to Explain Pain to my patients/family/friends/health professionals? How do I identify what patients need to know and how do I best pass it on to others, and where can I learn the best skills for delivery? Explain Pain Supercharged is for all health professionals treating pain and indeed anyone teaching people about pain.

In this new book, with entirely original content, Moseley and Butler apply their unique style to take the neuroimmune science of pain further and deeper, enriching your core knowledge while providing immediately applicable education strategies, conceptual change science, curriculum development and hundreds of ready to use clinical metaphors and therapeutic narratives.