The Explain Pain Handbook: Protectometer

A Chronic Pain Workbook

Written by two pain science experts with more than 60 years of combined experience in the pain field―in clinical, research and education roles―this chronic pain workbook will help you map your recovery, implement active coping strategies, discover mindfulness exercises, safely increase daily activities and find freedom from pain, all by using the power of knowledge and harnessing the remarkable bioplasticity that exists in every single one of us.

Includes Education and Easy-to-Use Tools

Using vibrant, colorful, unique original artwork, this cognitive behavior workbook provides education and easy-to-use tools to help you map a course toward recovery and put strategies in motion to safely increase daily activities and find freedom from pain.

In  The Explain Pain Handbook: Protectometer  you’ll learn:

• Why we all experience pain and how it works
• How your brain, nervous system, and protective system work and the role they play in pain tolerance
• How to implement a strategy called the “Protectometer” to help you respond to pain
• How bioplasticity works and how it can help you start feeling better
• How to map a recovery plan
• Active coping strategies to help you start feeling better
• How to safely start moving again and/or progress to more movement
• How to harness your “happy hormones” as you work toward recovery
• How to change your thoughts to contribute to your recovery process

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

Ongoing pain is the most costly health problem facing the world. Based on decades of research, Explain Pain (2003) launched what can only be called a revolution―the Explain Pain Revolution. Explaining Pain has become one of the world's most effective and inexpensive treatments for pain. It is now the cornerstone of modern pain treatment and rehabilitation―with clinical studies showing its benefits across cultures, conditions and communities.

In this patient-targeted handbook, we combine unique and original artwork with material that has been refined over the last twenty years. Scientists now agree that pain happens when the credible evidence of DANGER to your body is greater than the credible evidence of SAFETY to your body. Using this knowledge, we have developed the protectometer―an easy to use tool that will help you apply this principle to understand and deal with your pain.

The Explain Pain Handbook is for people in pain, their friends, families and health professionals. It will help you map your recovery, implement active coping strategies, safely increase daily activities and find freedom from pain, all by using the power of knowledge and harnessing the remarkable bioplasticity that exists in every single one of us.