Koadlow Public Lecture 2015. Over the past two decades there has been a revolution in our knowledge of how pain is made by the brain, but very little of this information has reached pain sufferers. Much of the complex pain science can be reduced to a simple formula, “we will have pain when our brain has more credible evidence of danger to our body than credible evidence of safety to our body.”

Silje Endresen Reme's talks about the common phenomenon of back pain; why some people develop chronic pain and disability while others don't, and what psychology has to do with it. Silje is a PhD. from Uni Health, Uni Research, Bergen & Harvard School of Public Health, Boston.

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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Norway is one of the richest countries in the world, but have the highest sick absences in Europe. The statistics show that the majority of sick leaves is due to muscle- and skeleton affliction and mildly mental sufferings. Silje have researched what actions can be done to help them come back to work, and offers a solution to a much debated topic - not only in Scandinavia - but all over the western world. Is forcing people with sufferings back to work the solution? Or is there a better alternative?

Silje Endresen Reme is a psychologist and PhD at the University of Bergen and lectures at Harvard School of Public Health. She wrote a doctor’s degree about understanding and treatment of cronical afflictions, with focus on actions to reduce sickleaves due to these issues.

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David Butler from the Neuro Orthopaedic Institute talking about the wonders of exogenous vs. endogenously produced pain relieving chemicals. A video - taken from the NOIjam blog -designed to educate patients and clinicians on the"majesty of the brain". David makes comparisons between your brains natural chemical production and their pharmaceutical counterparts.

Professor Peter O'Sullivan is a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and Professor of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy at Curtin University. Internationally recognised as a leading clinician, researcher and educator in Physiotherapy, he has published more than 100 research papers, been keynote speaker at 60 national and international conferences and taught in 22 countries on the diagnosis and management of persistent pain disorders. This video is from the Australian Physiotherapy Association's Physiotherapy Conference 2011.

Successful Ageing Seminar: Getting a grip on pain and the brain 26 July 2013

Chronic pain is a huge problem in Australia, with one in five people suffering from a chronic pain disorder that reduces their quality of life. It is estimated to cost Australia approximately $35 billion a year -- a financial burden that is greater than cardiovascular disease and diabetes combined.

Clinical neuroscientist and physiotherapist Professor Lorimer Moseley is the leader of the Sansom Institute for Health Research Body in Mind research group. He and his team are conducting ground-breaking research into chronic pain -- shedding light on how the brain produces pain, and in turn developing non-pharmacological treatments to help the millions of people who suffer from chronic pain.

In the first of two presentations, Professor Moseley outlined why pain really is in your head, but not in the way you might think. He considered questions such as what pain is, why we have it and why it often does not go away.

Following Professor Moseley, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) postdoctoral research fellow, Dr Tasha Stanton, delivered a presentation focusing on osteoarthritis and the brain. Dr Stanton is at the forefront of novel approaches to the pain of osteoarthritis. Her research interests lie in understanding the neuroscience behind pain and its clinical implications.

Pain researcher and physical therapist Lorimer Moseley discusses pain neurotags and how they're activated.

Successful Ageing Seminar: Getting a grip on pain and the brain 26 July 2013

Chronic pain is a huge problem in Australia, with one in five people suffering from a chronic pain disorder that reduces their quality of life. It is estimated to cost Australia approximately $35 billion a year -- a financial burden that is greater than cardiovascular disease and diabetes combined.

Clinical neuroscientist and physiotherapist Professor Lorimer Moseley is the leader of the Sansom Institute for Health Research Body in Mind research group. He and his team are conducting ground-breaking research into chronic pain -- shedding light on how the brain produces pain, and in turn developing non-pharmacological treatments to help the millions of people who suffer from chronic pain.

In the first of two presentations, Professor Moseley outlined why pain really is in your head, but not in the way you might think. He considered questions such as what pain is, why we have it and why it often does not go away.

Following Professor Moseley, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) postdoctoral research fellow, Dr Tasha Stanton, delivered a presentation focusing on osteoarthritis and the brain. Dr Stanton is at the forefront of novel approaches to the pain of osteoarthritis. Her research interests lie in understanding the neuroscience behind pain and its clinical implications.

Dr. Greg Lehman, PT, DC “Re-evaluating the utility of the biomechanical approach to pain and injury management”

APTEI Symposium presentation October 5th, 2014 Toronto, ON, Canada

Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples.

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Peter discusses cognitive functional therapy and the myth of "core stability" in relation to chronic low back pain.

Lorimer Moseley IFOMPT 2016 Expanding our Understanding of Pain Biology into patient care. Provided by the MACP

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Prof Peter O'Sullivan discusses some of the myths about back pain which are widely held and negatively impact on the perception and treatment of back pain.

Dr. Mike Evans is founder of the Health Design Lab at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of Toronto, and a staff physician at St. Michael's Hospital.

Do we actually experience pain, or is it merely illusion?

In this video, Lorimer Moseley explores these questions, and position the pain that we feel as our bodies' way of protecting us from damaging tissues further. He also looks at what this might mean for those who suffer from chronic pain.

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Following his award winning performance in “Understanding Pain and What to do about it in less than five minutes” Brainman is back in two new films.

A team from Hunter Integrated Pain Service (HIPS), University of South Australia, University of Washington and Hunter Medicare Local (Hunter ML) have convinced Brainman to reprise his role and star in two follow-up pain videos.

Despite people loving his 2011 performance , feedback from primary care providers was consistently “make it shorter”. These two updated videos are less than 2 ½ minutes in duration. The first “Brainman stops his opioids” holds the succinct message that opioids are no longer recommended for chronic non-cancer pain.

The second video shows the choices Brainman makes as he transitions toward an active evidence based approach.

Following his award winning performance in “Understanding Pain and What to do about it in less than five minutes” Brainman is back in two new films.

A team from Hunter Integrated Pain Service (HIPS), University of South Australia, University of Washington and Hunter Medicare Local (Hunter ML) have convinced Brainman to reprise his role and star in two follow-up pain videos.

Despite people loving his 2011 performance , feedback from primary care providers was consistently “make it shorter”. These two updated videos are less than 2 ½ minutes in duration. The first “Brainman stops his opioids” holds the succinct message that opioids are no longer recommended for chronic non-cancer pain. The second video shows the choices Brainman makes as he transitions toward an active evidence based approach.

This is a great, easy to follow video about chronic pain. It helps you understand what current research has been saying about chronic pain - thats its not a joint or muscle problem, rather a 're-wiring' of the brain perception of itself. In other words, the brain has become more sensitive than before.

The best way to tackle chronic pain, is to better understand what changes have happened with the brain through a Functional Neurological assessment, and apply a tailored brain-based therapy.