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Useful Information
This section provides information on a variety of resources in different
formats.
They provide useful information to people living with persistent pain.
The resources offer a range of different perspectives and are not necessarily
aligned
to the content of the Optimise Pain Rehabilitation Unit Programmes.
BOOKS
Title
Living Beyond
Your Pain: Using
Acceptance &
Commitment
Therapy to Ease
Chronic Pain
Author
Joanne Dahl,
Tobias Lundgren,
Description
Approach to living
with pain to help
people live a rich
and full life.
ISBN
1572244097
Mindfulness for
Health: A practical
guide to relieving
pain, reducing
stress and
restoring
wellbeing
Living Well With
Pain And Illness:
Using
mindfulness to
free yourself from
suffering
Vidymala Burch
and Danny
Penman
Exercises to
encorporate into
daily life to ease
suffering.
074995924X
Vidymala Burch
Overcoming
Chronic Pain: A
Self-Help Guide
Using Cognitive
Behavioural
Techniques
Frances Cole ,
Hazel HowdenLeach , Helen
Macdonald ,
Written by
0749928603
Vidymala who
experiences
chronic pain with
guidance on how to
live well with
chronic pain
Self-help book
1841199702
detailing methods
developed by
specialists for
management of
pain.
Manage Your Pain
Michael Nicholas
et al
This self- help book 0285636790.
was written by the
pain management
at Royal North
Shore hospital in
Australia.
Chronic Pain. The
Pain Management
Plan: How People
Living with Pain
Found a Better
Life
Robert Lewin and
Mike Bryson
Methods that assist
in management of
pain.
0956662803
The Pain Survival
Guide: How to
Reclaim Your Life
Dennis Turk, Frits
Winter
1591470498
Pain Relief
without Drugs
Jan Sadler
10 step program to
help people
improve their ability
to cope with pain
A Self-Help Guide
for Chronic Pain.
Previously
published as
Natural Pain Relief.
Includes a 55
minute CD.
Explain Pain
David Butler,
Lorimer Moseley
The Mindfulness
Project
I Am Here Now: A
creative
mindfulness guide
and Journal Diary
Pain: The Science
of Suffering
Wall PD
Coping
Successfully with
Pain
Neville Shone
1594771510
09750910
Journal to facilitate
mindfulness
1785030779
A readable
0297842552
explanation of the
complexities of
pain by a world
authority
Personal
0-859-69750-9
description of how
his chronic pain
developed,
experience of going
to a pain
management
programme, and
using the methods
to improve his life
WEBSITES
Site
Web Address
Resources for
People Living with
http://www.paintoolkit.org/
pain
Alliance of
Professionals
working to improve
the management of
pain
www.britishpainsociety.org
Mindfulness
meditations
http://franticworld.com/free-meditations-from-mindfulness/
Improving Sleep
https://www.sleepio.com/
Hypermobility
Syndromes
Association
http://hypermobility.org/
Information about all
forms of arthritis and
painful
musculoskeletal
conditions
http://www.arthritisresearchuk.org/
Fibromyalgia
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Fibromyalgia/Pages/Introduction.aspx
Charitable Alliance
Supporting people
with Chronic Pain
https://painuk.org/
Pain Concern
(Charity)
http://painconcern.org.uk/
NOI Group Treatments and
resources for
Chronic Pain based
on research
http://www.noigroup.com/en/Home
Action on Pain
(UK Charity)
www.action-on-pain.co.uk
Information about
Complex Regional
Pain Syndrome
https://crps-uk.org/team/
Videos
Subject
Understanding Pain
in 5 minutes
URL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_3phB93rvI
A video describing
the experiences of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPpu7dXJFRI
people living with
pain in their own
words
Understanding Why
Things Hurt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C48f_Sen4d8
Treating Pain Using
the Brain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ABAS3tkkuE
APPS
App Name
ACT-companion
(iOS & Android)
Available at:
http://www.actcompanion.com/
ACT Coach
(iOS)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/act-coach/id804247934?mt=8
ACT Mindfully
(Android)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.marcoturi.actmindfully
Headspace
(iOS & Android)
https://www.headspace.com/
The Mindfulness
App
(iOS & Android)
http://www.mindfulness-app.com/
The Mindfulness
App II
(iOS & Android)
http://www.mindapps.se/
The Sleep School
App
(iOS & Android)
http://www.thesleepschool.org/insomnia-cure/products/app
Audio CDs
Mindfulness of Breathing: Managing Pain, Illness and Stress with Guided
Mindfulness Meditation
by Vidyamala Burch , Sona Fricker
There are multiple guided meditation CDs available in the Breathworks range.
Living with Chronic Pain
Produced by Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Neil Berry.
Send a postal order or cheque made out to "Pain CD" for £4.50 to PO Box 84,
Blackburn, BB2 7GH. Please indicate whether you require CD or Cassette or visit
www.chronicpain.org.uk
Listening version of pain management methods, well explained and easy to follow