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*Note that the resources offered here should be used in conjunction with your healthcare professional
Webcasts
Pain Management Education
You will require Flash Player (download Flash)
Overcome Pain Live Well Again Part 1
Overcome Pain Live Well Again Part 2
Overcome Pain Live Well Again Part 3
Record Your Own - Open the file, read the words slowly and softly into a recorder (smart phone or computer)
Body Awareness - 7 minute technique
Breath Awareness
Belly Breathing
Sa Ta Na Ma
Resources
Canadian Pain Summit webpage – Please Endorse it
Read Understanding Pain and Pain Management– Key Messages of Overcome Pain Education
Read Pain Self-Management Strategies suggestions
Listen to Interview on Yoga and Chronic Pain with Neil Pearson
Read Research supporting Pain Neurophysiology Education
Read Overcome Pain Live Well Again Brochure
Read Optimistic Scientific Recovery Model. A guide to the process of recovery from persistent pain.
Read Yoga for Chronic Pain, from International Journal of Yoga Therapy, 08
Read Yoga for Depression Literature Review 2007
Read Yoga Breathing Technique Literature Review
Listen ABC News on Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Listen to Dr. Sean Mackey on Modern Pain Management
Read Pain Management Education research abstract
Listen to Breathing Technique for Pain Management Audio Clip
Watch Mirror Box Treatment videos for people with CRPS
View Overcome Pain Live Well Again slides
Video links
How do I want this story to go – Amy Purdy
BBC broadcast on pain, gentics and transcranial magnetic stimulation
Understand Pain – in less than 5 minutes
YouTube clips Personal Story of CRPS
Easy Yoga Practice by Jaimie Perkunas
Books
Explain Pain. David Butler and Lorimer Moseley. NOIGroup Publications. 2003.
yoga for pain relief: Simple Practices to Calm Your Mind and Heal Your Chronic Pain. Kelly McGonigal. New harbinger Publications Inc, 2009.
Inside Chronic Pain: An Intimate and Critical Account. Lous Heshusius. Cornell Press 2009.
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science. Norman Doidge. Penguin Books 2007.
Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief: Guided practices for reclaiming your body and your life. Jon Kabat-Zinn. (Audio Book)
The Mindfulness Solution to Pain: Step-by-Step Techniques for Chronic Pain Management. Jackie Gardner-Nix. New Harbinger Publications, 2009.
Managing Pain Before It Manages You, Third Edition. Margaret A. Caudill. Guildford Press 2000.
The Pain Survival Guide: How to Reclaim Your Life. Dennis C. Turk. American Psychological Association 2005.
Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a new science reveals our extraordinary potential to transform ourselves. Sharon Begley. Ballantine Books 2007.
Break Through Pain. Shinzen Young (includes audio CD)
The Forgotten Body. Elissa Cobbs. 2008
Manage Your Pain: Practical and Positive Ways of Adapting to Chronic Pain. Michael Nicholas, Allan Molloy, Lois Tonkin Lee Beeston. Souvenir Press 2003.
GrrrOUCH! Pain is like a grouchy bear. Cathryn Morgan, General Store Publishing House, 2011.
Links
Pain
Canadian Pain Coalition
Pain Physiotherapy Directory
Pain Exhibition - art from people with chronic pain
Online relaxation exercises
Manage Your Arthritis Overview
Pain Management Guidelines
Online Chronic Pain Lectures – Calgary Pain Center
Hope Foundation Alberta
Health Skills – Halifax Pain PT and International Pain Education
Yoga
Purple Lotus Yoga
Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy
Turn Stress into Bliss
International Association of Yoga Therapists
SOYA (South Okanagan Yoga Academy)
Rehab Yoga in Vancouver
Kate Potter Yoga
Padma Meditation and Yoga
Yoga Spirit – Yoga Therapy Webinars
Toronto Yoga Conference
Everything about Yoga
Physiyoga – Leslee Watt, PT/YT, Winnipeg
Shelley Prosko - Physio and Yoga therapy in kelowna, BC
Vancouver Yoga Directory
Biofeedback
Healing Rhythms
HeartMath
Apps to download
iPhone – autonomicpower
Blackberry – mycalmbeat
Natural Pain Relief
Relaxation scripts – many different relaxation techniques here. Read them into your computer or smart phone for free relaxation audio files.
Dancing with Pain - Loolwa Khazzoum's journey to less pain through dance
Downloadable audio files for Stress Reduction. – Not specific for pain management, and may be difficult for those with high stress or no practice in mindfulness.