Chapter 1: Cognitions and pain
Chapter 2: Patient education
Evidence for therapeutic neuroscience education
Therapeutic neuroscience education addressing pain
Therapeutic neuroscience education addressing pain
Therapeutic neuroscience education addressing function and disability
Therapeutic neuroscience education outcomes related to psycho-social issues
Therapeutic neuroscience education addressing physical movement
Content of therapeutic neuroscience education
Delivery methods of therapeutic neuroscience education
Duration and frequency of therapeutic neuroscience education
Adjunct treatment to the therapeutic neuroscience education
Chapter 3: The neuroscience of pain
Traditional and old pain models
Cartesian model of pain (René Descartes 1596-1650)
The pain neurophysiology questionnaire (PNQ)
Putting it all in perspective
Chapter 4: Neuroscience education for patients
Neuroscience education for patients
Alarm systems, nails in the foot and Christmas trees
Waking up the alarm system
Speeding buses hurt more than ankle sprains
Little people in your head
Airlines are flying through your head
Driving the same road over and over and over and...
Believing everything you see
Injuries occur in a vacuum, right?
Chapter 5: Clinical application guidelines for therapeutic neuroscience education
Combining TNE with physical therapy
How do we get physicians on-board?
Chapter 6: The bigger picture of pain
Sympathetic nervous system (SNS)
Guidelines for treating patients with chronic pain
Chapter 7: Putting it all together
Chapter 8: Conclusion, summary and the future of therapeutic neuroscience education
TNE for the general population