Resource Hub
The information on this website is just a starting point. Equipping yourself with knowledge about your condition and how pain affects you is key to understanding how best to manage it. Here is a collection of podcasts, books, and advocacy groups to help you learn more about different strategies that can support your pain management.
The impact pain has on our lives can be reduced — it’s about finding the right management strategies for you.
Podcasts
Empowered beyond pain https://bodylogic.physio/podcast/
The PainConcern Podcast - Airing Pain https://painconcern.org.uk/airing-pain/
Like Mind Like Body - Curable Health https://www.curablehealth.com/podcast
Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee - episode #472 How to Break Free from Chronic Pain and Reclaim Your Life with Professor Peter O'Sullivan https://drchatterjee.com/how-to-break-free-from-chronic-pain-and-reclaim-your-life-with-professor-peter-osullivan/
Books
Pain is Really Strange Steve Haines
This short research-based graphic book reveals just how strange pain is and explains how understanding it is often the key to relieving its effects.
Manage Your Pain Michael Nicholas
Drawing on the latest research, Manage Your Pain explains the positive and practical ways you can adapt to chronic pain in order to minimise its impacts on your life.
The Way Out Alan Gordon
This book provides an easy-to-follow guide to ending your pain with Pain Reprocessing Therapy
Explain Pain David Butler & Lorimer Moseley
In easy-to-follow language, discusses how pain experiences are constructed in response to dangers and threats in our bodies and influenced by our thoughts, beliefs and context.
Living with the Enemy Ray Owens
This book focuses on coping with the stress of chronic illness using CBT, mindfulness and acceptance
The Body Keeps the Score M.D. Bessel van der Kolk
This book explores how traumatic experiences affect the brain and body, emphasizing the profound connection between emotional trauma and physical health.
Patient Advocacy Groups
When living with pain knowledge is power. To find more information on your specific condition we encourage you to search for patient advoacy groups. These groups can provide further support and help you to discover ways to manage your pain condition.
Chronic Pain Ireland https://chronicpain.ie/
Migraine Association of Ireland https://migraine.ie/
FibroIreland https://fibroireland.com/
Crohn’s and Colitis Ireland https://crohnscolitis.ie/
Arthritis Ireland https://www.arthritisireland.ie/
Irish ME/CFS Association https://irishmecfs.org/
