Shifting Your Pain and Perspective
Explain Pain® Education
Do you continuously or intermittently experience symptoms from any of the following:
- Back/Neck Pain
- Achy Joints
- Depression
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Tendonitis
- Sciatica
- Anxiety
- IBS or TMJ
- Endometriosis
- Carpel Tunnel
- Fibromyalgia
- Muscle Strains
- Headaches
- Chronic Fatigue
- Osteoarthritis
- More . . .
Understanding Pain Reduces Pain!
Research has found that PAIN SCIENCE EDUCATION is a best practice treatment for relief.
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How we Help
Stories help us make sense of our life experiences including pain. Our narratives also reveal our perspectives which reflect our knowledge, expectations, beliefs, feelings, and thoughts. Studies have found that how we view our ongoing pain can impact how much, and even if, we hurt.
Through teaching the latest science about pain and recovery and relating it to your narrative, we help you develop a new understanding and relationship with your pain. This new outlook can redirect the plot of your pain story towards relief and resilience.
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Please help us reduce the incidence of persistent pain worldwide through offering free educational programs. Pain Story Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization funded by the generous donations of our supporters.
The Chronic Pain Problem
- Approximately one and half billion people worldwide have chronic pain, including nearly 25% of US adults
- Standard treatments which are mostly invasive and only aimed at the physical body are frequently ineffective
- The goal of persistent pain care is often management instead of elimination
- Current pain remedies only address symptoms not the underlying causes
The Pain Story Project Solution
- Research has proven that learning about persistent pain can reduce it
- Chronic pain is caused by many factors
- Pain educators agree: chronic pain is often a ‘pain problem’ not a tissue issue
- The meaning applied to chronic pain directs behaviors and outcomes
- Ongoing pain is a sensory and emotional experience both of which need to be considered in recovery
From Our Blog
Story Share: Pause, Reflect, and Choose into an Athletic Challenge to End the Pain
Story Share: Pause, Reflect, and Choose into an Athletic Challenge to End the Pain Story by Jessica Kisiel and shared with her permission To Ride or Not to Ride? Some time ago, this was my query, whether to go on a challenging bike ride or to stay home. I...
Chronic Pain: A Perfect Storm with Many Factors
Chronic Pain: A Perfect Storm of Many Factors A perfect storm, like chronic pain, emerges when numerous factors combine simultaneously. Merriam-Webster defines “perfect storm” as “a critical or disastrous situation created by a powerful concurrence of factors.” Let’s...
Pain Relief Through a New Understanding: Why Changing Your Story Matters
Pain Relief Through a New Understanding: Why Changing Your Story Matters Your Pain Story is not a physical sensation, but rather the explanation you have devised to make sense of why you hurt. As shown in the image above, it often lands higher, appears bigger, has red...
