Pain. Is it all just in your mind? Professor Lorimer Moseley - University of South Australia

Pain has been part of the human experience longer than magnetic bracelets, ergonomic chairs, whiplash and repetitive strain injury. Yet it is just in the last few decades that we have realised how terrifically complex pain really is and how wrong many of our assumptions about pain really are.

Pain is an important issue. Its impact on our society is staggering - more Australians suffer from chronic pain than diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer combined. Every day, chronic pain and its management costs Australia almost a million dollars. How can this be?

In this fascinating Knowledge Works lecture, Professor Lorimer Moseley will examine two important questions - "Why does it hurt?" and "Why does it still hurt?" He will share findings from his international research investigating the role of the brain and mind in chronic pain disorders.

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[Michael Hunter]

Great Talk I have lived with chronic pain for 11yrs and the way Lorimer has described what happens is dead on. Thanks for the information. One question though I have had my doctor recently drop my pain medication with my consent however my pain levels have exponentially increased. is their anyway to decrease these effects as I would love to have a better balance between pain and meds.

[MsUkdance]

Hi Professor Lorimer please read Prof Joanna Zakrzewska’s research.

[going coco]

Is this guy philosophy or something else

[Diane Anastasio Simonson]

It helped me with CRPS, which shares a lot etimology with Fibromylagia. Explain Pain is a good way to start. Also, Babette Rothschild's "The Body Remembers" is a great resource. Anything related to brain plasticity helps. I was in a wheelchair for 2 years and no one could help me. I basically did all the research, and applied it, myself. NOI was a huge resource.

[Tiamet83]

Has this helped anyone with Fibromyalgia?  My Physio sent me here and I was just wondering...

[Andreas748]

maybe a dulling of the senses and lessening of inhibitions would be worthwile. As in getting falling down drunk. -not joking, I've been thinking about doing this just to see if I still have the same pain/ limitations while being inebriated....

[jovifisio]

This is a new type of therapy that consists to give enough knowledge to our pacient to make them undertand that brain has a very important weight in their pain, and then with cognitive therapy and exercise, do pacient to a really succesfull live, recovering all that pacient had lost because of the pain. If you really wants to relieve your lower back pain, you should go to a physio that works with this kind of therapies, and this is hard to do, find one of them. Good luck. Sorry for my english.

[Jem Mawson]

Professor Lorimer Moseley is awesome. This is great stuff!

[Peter Haenga]

Thanks for this video ive been suffering from chronic lower back pain for more than 4 years or so and ive been to so many physio etc... to relieve my lower back pain But now i might try some of these techniques Just a question though I had an brain injury too would that also contribute to my brain not sending message signals properly ? I had the brain injury before I injured my lower back . Funny you mentioned the pelvic thrust thats what the physio told me may be causing my lower back pain

[David Bowden]

Working as a personal trainer with post physio-clients, one thing that I wish more physio's would address is the importance of breathing.

Not in a new age pseudo-science way but as efficiently and measurably decreasing pain and muscle dysfunction.

As a rule, people breath poorly, in Western culture at least. It ties in nicely to patterning and the inability to differentiate between posture muscles and breathing muscles.