If you’ve followed my Facebook page for long enough you’ll know I have a real fascination with (but a mediocre understanding of) pain, and in particular how we communicate with patients regarding this. We (Podiatrists) are definitely guilty of thinking too mechanistically most of the time, and sometimes probably at the cost of not adopting a biopsychosocial approach (that should be subscribed to with all patients given the current understanding of pain science).
My interest began back in early 2015 when I attended one of Mike Stewart’s excellent ‘Know Pain’ courses. I posted a copy of the notes I took during the course at the time here.
If you’ve missed other previous Facebook posts, there was this one from over a year ago which links to must reads from Derek Griffin and Gregory Lehman. There was also this incredible TED talk from Lorimer Moseley which I posted at the end of last year (if you only do one thing in your coffee break today make it to watch this).
More brilliant (and free) resources worth bookmarking are the downloadable pain flash cards from Ben Cormack.
Finally, subscribe to the noigroup blog as the regular posts there are brilliant and thought provoking. The image below is a brilliant table summarising target concepts and the blog it is from can be found here.
Just a few of the resources here that very smart people have been kind enough to provide for free to help less smart people (me!) to improve our understanding of this complex topic. Hope you find them as useful as I continue to.
