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Chronic Pain Foundations

Understand what's happening in your body

A clinically-grounded education course on why chronic soft-tissue pain develops, persists, and — importantly — how it changes. Covers the neuroscience of pain, the role of fascia and connective tissue, compensation patterns, and the evidence behind different treatment approaches. Required viewing for anyone who has been dealing with pain for more than three months.

8 lessons2h 40min total2 free previews
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  • 2h 40min of content
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Course lessons

3
How Fascia Becomes a Problem
22 min
4
Compensation Chains: Why It Hurts There
24 min
5
Central Sensitization Explained
18 min
6
What Massage Therapy Actually Does
20 min
7
Evidence-Based Self-Care: What Works
25 min
8
Building Your Maintenance Plan
20 min

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Research Foundation

Key references & recommended reading

  1. 1

    Dr. Lorimer Moseley & Dr. David Butler (2017)

    Explain Pain Supercharged — the definitive clinical resource on pain neuroscience education and how understanding pain biology reduces its intensity

    Moseley & Butler, 2017
  2. 2

    Dr. Helene Langevin (2021)

    Fascia Mobility, Proprioception, and Myofascial Pain — research on how fascial thickening and reduced gliding contribute to chronic musculoskeletal pain

    Langevin, 2021
  3. 3

    Dr. Clifford Woolf (2011)

    Central Sensitization: Implications for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pain — seminal paper on how the nervous system amplifies pain signals and why peripheral treatment alone is often insufficient

    Woolf, 2011
  4. 4

    Dr. Adriaan Louw (2016)

    The Efficacy of Pain Neuroscience Education on Musculoskeletal Pain — meta-analysis showing that pain education reduces pain intensity, disability, and fear-avoidance

    Louw et al., 2016
  5. 5

    Thomas W. Myers (2020)

    Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual Therapists and Movement Professionals — Myers' myofascial meridian model underpins the compensation chain framework taught in this course, explaining why pain in one region so often originates from tension patterns elsewhere

    Myers, 2020 (4th ed.)
  6. 6

    Frank H. Netter, MD (2022)

    Atlas of Human Anatomy — the gold-standard anatomical reference used to understand the precise location, attachments, and relationships of every muscle and structure discussed in this course

    Netter, 2022 (7th ed.)

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