As with any health condition, it is very important that you understand what is going on in your body. With pain – even more so, because pain levels are affected by your thoughts and feelings.

Knowing more about how chronic pain originates is helpful. It can be a first step to realising that it can improve.

So as a start, please watch these three short videos

Understanding Pain (From Hunter Health Service in NSW)

Explain Chronic Pain (From Neil Pearson, a physiotherapist and pain expert)

Pain Perception and the Human Brain (for a closer look at pain physiology)

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