The Pain Revolution & education as therapy

Helping people deeply understand their health challenge can have profound effects—such as by reducing fear of the unknown, informing positive health behaviours, and altering psychological state. Changing understanding can thereby change both the experience of a health condition, and often times the health condition itself. This is nowhere more true than in the case of persistent pain, where negative and false information continues to pervade the health industry and modern thinking at large. This is likely a major contributor to the pain epidemic currently affecting the lives of 1 in 5 Australians.

As part of the Pain Revolution education team, Hopkin’s researchers Dr Daniel Harvie and PhD candidate Nick Olthof toured Tasmania covering 700km and delivering 19 educational and community building events. Through public talks and the ‘Brain Bus’ interactive pain science lab, the Pain Revolution reached over 1500 participants, bringing a modern understanding of pain and it’s management to clinicians, people in pain, and the general public.

To find out more visit www.PainRevolution.org and www.Pain Revolution.org/brainbus.