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I broke down and bough myself a Kindle so that I could read as many books as I wanted while traveling. (I can never decide what I might want to read, and so usually I bring 3 books and a few magazines with me...but they end up getting pretty darn heavy when you are lugging them around the airport.) So... one of the books I read on the plane was Painful Yarns by Lorimer Mosley. Lorimer is a physiotherapist & pain researcher who teaches & lectures all over the world... and in order to describe aspects of acute & chronic pain to clients, he uses some very entertaining stories (that he shares in his lectures). So, this book is a collection of those stories, with information about how they apply to pain science.
You can pick up the book at Amazon... (and if you like that, then check out Explain Pain by Lorimer Mosley & David Butler... and if you get all geeked-out by that, then check out a great website dedicated to physiotherapy management of pain - www.noigroup.com). I really think that there is more that we can be doing to help animal in pain from a psychosocial aspect. I think vet med does a good job from a biological perspective... but the psychosocial aspect is all the rage on the human side! If you want to learn more about veterinary pain management (to improve your knowledge of biological pain management) - check out www.ivapm.org.
Too many links to chose from, so this goes no-where!
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