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"Endorphins and sage advice by Neil Pearson"
This book is one of those must reads for anyone working with people with persistent pain. What’s more, give this to your clients to enhance their understanding of pain neurophysiology. Learning from ‘the pain expert’ is always a powerful experience for clients. “Wow now I get it, why didn’t you explain it to me as well as this guy in the book?” “Well I guess if it is written down, you may not be as full of it as I thought.”

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... More > 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

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"Painful Yarns" Great book. Quirky, funny, easy reading. A painless (!) way to learn some lessons about chronic pain. To read a full review on my pain management website, How to Cope with Pain, visit:
http://www.howtocopewithpain.org/blog/126/here%e2%80%99s-how-you-can-laugh-while-learning-about-pain/.

"a pearl of it's own time"
A truly great accomplishment from a great author. After reading explain pain and looking up more about it's creator, I couldn't wait to get my hands on this book. Although it is clearly different, he succeeded to amaze me yet again.

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... More > 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! < Less

Great Great read.... Laugh & learn. It reads like it is self published - rather rough, but that is part of the charm of the book. Who da thought chronic pain and laughter could be woven together so well. Well done Lorimer!!

"Learning can be fun." Learning can be fun. This book proves that saying correct. I thought it was dam good and I am not a physitian and I am not someone with pain. My brother lent me his copy because he has back pain and I read it on the train to work. He said it was really good. i must admit i was skepticle. But then the person next to me said that must be good because I was giggling at Dustys bum crack, which is one of the storys that the writer uses to explain why things hurt more when we are already worried about them. that makes sense to me. the writer is a professor at oxford univeristy in england so it kicks that he has a story about dustys bum crack! so I told the person next to me to go and buy it too. I am the first to complain about bad products so I thought i should congratulate this guy on a really kicking book. it is seriously way out there for hilarious reading.