"Education and Pain Treatment Strategies to Help You Move and Function Better, Experience Less Pain, and Take Back Your Life"
 
Pain is a normal human experience and is a powerful motivator that encourages us to stop, pay attention to why we hurt, and take care of a problem. However, living in pain is not normal. Chronic persistent pain can be frustrating, scary and exhausting. If you are experiencing persistent pain and wondering why you hurt and what to do about it, this book was written to educate you on how the nervous system and the brain process information and contribute to your pain experience. The latest research shows that the more you know about pain and how it works, the better off you’ll be. Written by Adriaan Louw, PT, PhD, a pain neuroscience expert and author of a comprehensive series of neuroscience books, this guide teaches the neuroscience of pain in easy-to-understand language and provides simple strategies to move and function better, experience less pain, and increase your ability and interest in participating in healthy exercises and movement. This book provides therapeutic neuroscience education to help you listen to your body, respond to your body’s massages in a healthy way, and set goals to start getting back to the activities that you find enjoyable and meaningful.