Resolve Back Pain Handbook

Resolve Back Pain Handbook

A Powerful, Science-Backed Treatment Strategy

This book offers a powerful, science-backed treatment strategy that goes beyond quick fixes. It’s about understanding pain and gradually retraining both body and brain towards recovery. Welcome to the Back Pain Revolution―a ground-breaking approach based on 25 years of research and clinical studies.

For those experiencing persisting back pain, this personal handbook will clarify the Four Essential Pain Facts that have been key in changing even the most long-lasting pain and will enable you to apply them to your unique situation. This isn’t a passive treatment; it’s an empowering journey where you take the pilot’s seat.

An Interactive Guide

This interactive guide includes activities for learning and space to reflect on the lessons by writing down thoughts, ideas, memories and questions.

This comprehensive and evidence-based resource will support healthcare professionals in transforming patients’ recovery. Designed for independent patient use and use in collaborative clinical settings, this book will effectively guide patients through life-changing strategies informed by thousands of back pain sufferers and guided by leading back pain researchers.

The Resolve Back Pain Handbook will provide:

• Key information on pain science
• Techniques to retrain brain and body
• Principles for safe movement and loading
• Strategies to reclaim life and future-proof yourself

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

Haley Leake, _{PhD, BPhty (Hons)}

Dr. Leake completed her physiotherapy training and PhD at the University of South Australia, where she now works as a researcher. She was a clinician on the RESOLVE randomized clinical trial for chronic pain in Sydney, which formed the basis of this book.

Benedict Wand, _{BAppSc, GradDip (ExSpSc), MAppSc, Phd}

Dr. Wand is a physiotherapist and professor of musculoskeletal physiotherapy at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. He completed his physiotherapy degree, as well as postgraduate qualifications in sports science and musculoskeletal physiotherapy, before undertaking his PhD.

James McAuley, _{PhD, BSc (Hons), Grad Dip (Psych Couns)}

Dr. McAuley is a psychologist and professor in the School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health at University of NSW, and a senior research scientist at NeuRA. His research combines experimental, clinical and translational methods to develop and test new interventions to manage low back pain.

From the Back Cover

Take on the challenge―recovery is possible! For patients and clinicians alike, this handbook is the key to recovery from persisting back pain.

Are you tired of living the chronic back pain that seems impossible to overcome? You’re not alone. Chronic back pain is the most costly health condition globally, affecting millions and robbing them of life’s joys. But there’s hope on the horizon.

For those of you who are healthcare professionals, this comprehensive and evidence-based resource will support you in transforming your patient’s recovery. Designed for independent patient use and use in collaborative clinical settings, it will enable you to effectively guide your patients through life-changing strategies informed by thousands of back pain sufferers and guided by leading back pain researchers.