As part of APMA’s aim to provide persistent pain information and options, APMA’s library is constantly being upgraded. If you are interested in accessing any of the books, peer-reviewed articles and other information, please contact APMA.

Recommended reading about pain from APMA

Price list - 20% discount for APMA members

Chronic Pain for Dummies – Stuart Kassan, Charles Vierck & Elizabeth Vierck (2008)

$28.00 plus postage
(APMA members - $22.40)

This book offers proven exercises and techniques for dealing with pain. This reassuring, practical guide helps you understand what causes pain and how to manage it with pain-relieving techniques. You'll see how to track your pain triggers, weigh the benefits and risks of pain-reducing medications, improve your pain levels with diet and exercise, and determine whether surgery is right for you. Discover how to: diagnose your pain; build an anti-pain medical team; prevent or minimize pain attacks; explore alternative therapies; and make helpful lifestyle changes.

Manage Your Pain: Practical and Positive Ways to Adapt to Chronic Pain,  Michael Nicholas, Allan Molloy, Lois Tonkin & Lee Beeston (2007)

$25.00 plus postage
(APMA members - $20.00)

This is a series of thoroughly tested techniques that enable sufferers of chronic pain to do something positive and practical to improve their lives. If you have chronic pain this book from the ADAPT team at the Royal North Shore Hospital is for you.

The Mindfulness Solution to Pain: Step-by-step Techniques for Chronic Pain Management – Jackie Gardner-Nix (November 2009)

$30.00 plus postage
(APMA members - $24.00)

This book from the UK charts the factors that influence pain and gives step-by-step mindfulness approaches to help you harness the power of the mind to have more control over pain. Some Australian pain management clinics are now teaching mindfulness techniques.

Coping successfully with pain: Neville Shone (2002)
$22.00 plus postage
(APMA members - $17.60)

Neville Shone is a chronic pain sufferer and was paralysed by pain for some time. The techniques he used to regain his life are detailed in this book. He uses case studies, including, his own story, and the horror of pain as well as humour to show how you can take control of the pain.

Trick or Treatment? Alternative medicine on trial
Simon Singh & Edzard Ernst (2009)

$20.00 plus postage

 (APMA members - $16.00)

An outstanding account of what ‘evidence based medicine’ actually means and why we need to embrace it. It shines the scientific torch on acupuncture, homeopathy, reflexology, chiropractic therapy, aromatherapy and herbal medicine. In the interests of health and the hip pocket, become informed.

Pain: The science and culture of why we hurt:  Marni Jackson (2003)

$18.00 plus postage
(APMA members - $14.40)

Marni Jackson says the more she tried to encapsulate pain the more it slipped away. However, her explorations are fascinating and this is an insightful book of a difficult medical conundrum that is extremely readable. The interview with Ron Melzack (Gate Theory of Pain) who spent 50 years researching pain, still talks with passion about this subject is well worth reading.

Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain: Dr Susan Evans with Deborah Bush QSM (2005)

$25.00 plus postage
(APMA members - $20.00

The authors have not tried to ‘dumb down’ the clinical language but rather give the reader the tools to be able to navigate the medical options. The case studies and boxed questions and answers make this subject very accessible. A must read before you next see the doctor or for anyone with an interest in endometriosis.