Painful Yarns. Metaphors & stories to help understand the biology of pain.
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Publisher: Dancing giraffe press
Copyright:
© 2007 by G Lorimer Moseley Standard Copyright License
Language: English
Country: United Kingdom
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Printed: 113 pages, 6" x 9", perfect binding, black and white interior ink Description:This much anticipated collection of stories, written by Oxford University Fellow and Pain Scientist, Dr Lorimer Moseley, provides an entertaining and informative way to understand modern pain biology. Described by critics as 'a gem' and by clinicians as 'entertaining and educative', painful yarns is a unique book. The stories, some of his travels in outback Australia, some of experiences growing up, are great yarns. At the end of each story, there is a section "so what has this got to do with pain?" in which Moseley uses the story as a metaphor for some aspect of pain biology. Dr Moseley is co-author of Explain Pain (http://noigroup.com/ep/index(ep).html), which is a key text for pain sciences at Universities throughout the world. Keywords:Listed in: |
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summarised: A great value and applicable book!
Bart van Buchem
Physiotherapist - NL
http://www.howtocopewithpain.org/blog/126/here%e2%80%99s-how-you-can-laugh-while-learning-about-pain/.
Moseley's true skill though (an enviable one), is to be able to create such laugh out loud humour without diluting the message the book contains.
This is a must read for anyone with chronic pain or closely associated with someone suffering pain. It is a great tool for health professionals who, like me, spend many hours a day encouraging people to understand pain more, and fear it less.
David Hall, Physiotherapist and Health trainer
In this book Moseley takes science to the next level. Where scientists have written about science for other scientists, Lorimer has found the perfect way to write about the science of pain to the ordinary people, including patients in pain or professionals working with patients in pain, in a way that supposable everybody can understand.
Although Moseley is a profound researcher in pain, he doesn't write about things that we didn't knew yet, but shines a different light on the things we already saw and knew for a long time, but couldn't get our thoughts around. Using stories of real life events and relating them to pain, he makes you realize what really is going on when you're feeling pain.
Only one down side comes up thinking about this book. Since I'm graduating as a dutch physiotherapist in 2 weeks, i really wished that this book had been published about 3 years ago. It would have made my studies so much easier!! But as many men have said when arriving on a first date: better late then never...
My advice to future readers: Read it around a nice campfire. I'm sure you'll enjoy these entertaining and interesting yarns!
Painful yarns includes eleven of Moseley’s engaging stories. At the end of each yarn he provides two things: information of what this story has got to do with pain, and a one sentence take home message. As those of you who have heard Moseley’s presentations will expect, his humour draws us in and teaches us that our beliefs about pain are not founded on our life experiences or on pain science. My only regret about the book is that I now have clients saying things like “You didn’t tell that ant-in-the-ear story anything like in the book!”
At the end of Moseley’s book, he requests the reader to send in their own painful yarns. This may lead to publication of more yarns, however my take is this – how better to get your client to understand pain than to come up with their own story that helps to explain the neurobiology of pain?
This book is one I will now recommend for any clinic where they treat people with persistent pain. Its positive impact on the reader’s endogenous pain-relieving mechanisms make it a valuable read for anyone struggling with persistent pain. Here’s hoping that these types of stories can be translated and made culturally humourous.
Co Chair Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Sciences Group
By the end I had a much better idea of what feeling pain can mean, but more importantly much less fear of it.
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