Patient information and educational resources

Facts on back pain, sciatica, how to manage long-lasting lower back pain and useful resources for self care

 

Stretching is it underrated? Lou Schuler  https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/stretching-now-underrated-accumulating-research-says-yes-2024a10003s2?ecd=wnl_tp10_daily_240302_MSCPEDIT_etid6343828&uac=214351MT&impID=6343828    

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Great Back Pain summary article in the Guardian by Ann Robinson GP. 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/22/back-pain-drugs-scans-fixes-treatment-lancet

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Tasmania Heath  booklet on persistant pain.  http://outpatients.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/172578/CSS_-_Physiotherapy_-_Understanding_Persistent_Pain_Booklet.pdf

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Ben Cormack's excellent booklet on persistant pain.  https://cor-kinetic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/living-well-with-pain-digital-compressed.pdf

 

Paul Ingraham has some great articles on his website: https://www.painscience.com

specifically on X-ray and MRI.  https://www.painscience.com/articles/mri-and-x-ray-almost-useless-for-back-pain.php

Using Voltarol   https://www.painscience.com/articles/voltaren-gel.php

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Tony Genticore  lifting weights with disc injury?  https://tonygentilcore.com/2019/04/can-lift-weights-herniated-disc/

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Dr Stuart McGill stretches for low back pain: https://youtu.be/bcbuhePZZj0

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Dr Stuart MGill's Big 3 stability Exercises by Squat University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_e4I-brfqs

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Thoracic mobility exercises from Physio Tutors: https://youtu.be/0CrX59ulj9U

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Josh Renkins on using a foam roller for increased thoracic mobility: 

https://youtu.be/SxQkVD0UQNg?list=PLZe8C-cxLBZr6SaKBS8GwRVtbwW9PbK4p

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Thinking about gym training for strength at any age, start with compound exercises like these from musclemonsters: https://youtu.be/ixPy0Icr1tI

 

Videos which contain the recent knowledge about modern pain science by experts in their field.

Professor Peter O’Sullivan: Myth of core Stability (11 min)

Professor Peter O’Sullivan: Cognitive Functional Therapy (14 min)

Professor Lorimer Moseley: Why Things Hurt (TEDxAdelaide) (15 min)

Dr. Kieran O’Sullivan: General health and immune function in chronic pain (15 min)

Professor Lorimer Moseley: Expanding Our Management Approach for Patients in Pain (15 min)

Professor Peter O’Sullivan: Back pain, separating fact from fiction (16 min)

Silje Endresen Reme: Factors involved in persistant pain and who is susceptible (TEDxNHH) (18 min)

Max Zusman: Pain, Movement and Manual Therapy (19 min)

Dr Tasha Stanton: Osteoarthritis and the brain (25 min)

Professor Peter O’Sullivan: The role of communication in clinical practice (25 min)

Professor Peter O’Sullivan: New directions in managing non-specific CLBP (25 min)

Dr. Neil O´Connell: Effectiveness in chronic pain (37 min)

Dr. Greg Lehman – Re-evaluating the biomechanical approach to pain (37 min)

Dr. Jo Nijs: Treatment of central sensitization pain (38 min)

Professor Lorimer Moseley: Getting a grip on pain and the brain (40 min)

Neil Pearson: Overcome pain part 1 (44 min)

Neil Pearson: Overcome pain part 2 (41 min)

Dr. Kieran O’Sullivan: When is spinal pain less about the spine? (45 min)

Professor Lorimer Moseley: Pain, Do you really get it? (46 min)

Professor Lorimer Moseley Pain, Is it all just in your mind? (48 min)

Professor Lorimer Moseley: Modern Brain and Pain Science (59 min)

David Butler: Treating Pain Using the Brain (75 min)

Professor Lorimer Moseley and others: Enterprising Partnerships Talk (79 min)

Professor Peter O’Sullivan: Making Sense of Low Back Pain (84 min)

Lorimer Moseley and others: Pain Making it personal (87 min)

Focused symposium with Moseley, Butler, Thacker, Louw: Pain Management 2012 (1 hour and 30 min)

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