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30/05/2024

Well here I am again, after a few years hiatus I’ve joined the pain revolution ride for 2024! This year is close to my heart, as the fundraising and pain education is supporting the communities in western rural Victoria, where I grew up. I’m going to be working hard to train my legs getting ready for approx 700km of cycling starting in Mt Gambier ending in Horsham. I’d love and appreciate your support in contributing, even something small, to help people living with persistent pain in the Wimmera and surrounding rural communities.

https://2024-pain-revolution-rural-outreach-tour.raisely.com/joanne-king

31/07/2020

Very fortunate to be a part of the Pain Revolution team.

14/04/2020

“My brain is such a powerful organ and I can change the patterns of my brain to trick my pain”... “now I’m in control, not the pain” ....How fabulous are those words from a woman recovering from persistent pain. It will also be lovely to see one of our Pain Revolution Crew, Trevor on the telly too! Watch with me, Conquering Chronic Pain on SBS Insight tonight, Tuesday 14th at 8.30pm. This is why I do what I do!

16/01/2020

An important learning about persistent pain and how managing it is multifaceted through lifestyle. Nutrition is an important part of this process.

Inflammation doesn't CAUSE back pain, but it does have a big influence on the sensitivity of your nervous system. Find out what to do about it --> http://bit.ly/2u2NdWe

17/10/2019

Integrating meditation and mindfulness into exposure therapy to reduce anxiety and fear of pain. This is very much in line mindfulness integrated cognitive behavioural therapy. Learning these tools simultaneously can be very effective methods to change ones experience of pain.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/10/mindfulness-meditation-study-shows-changes-in-neural-responses-to-pain-and-fear/

A study using mindfulness meditation showed changes over time in neural responses to pain and fear. The researchers found that changes in the hippocampus after mindfulness training were associated with enhanced ability to recall a safety memory, and thus respond in a more adaptive way.

20/09/2019

The Mind and body in a nutshell - a highly complex integrated system. Psychology & nutrition are both important in the management of ones mental health.

13/08/2019

This.

I stared at the referral in my hand for a bariatric surgeon, dumbfounded. “If you lose some weight, you’ll feel a lot better,” my gynecologist told me. I didn’t doubt that the weight I’d gained after six months of near-continuous steroid use was…

21/05/2019

Interesting read. What a shift in thinking about our appendix: importance in immune function and good gut-bacteria.

When I started medical school, I was taught that the appendix was a useless little organ hanging off the start of the large intestine…

19/02/2019

Chronic pain? 3 WEEKS TO GO! …until the Pain Revolution Ride. ...And I need your help...

For those unfamiliar with the Pain Revolution, I’m about to volunteer my time cycling 700km across Tasmania with 25 other pain health professionals, providing an outreach program to rural communities. This annual event aims to give people methods to re-train their systems to be free of chronic pain.

There is no more common reason for early retirement from the workforce than persistent pain. In terms of disability and economic cost, there is no health condition that places a greater burden on our society. Persistent pain is a major risk factor for depression, su***de, cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and stroke, so you are also, in a way, helping us prevent that stuff too!

Please support my ride, follow the link, make a donation and help me contribute towards the latest pain neuroscience research and education!

painrevolution2019.everydayhero.com/au/pain-revolution-ride

15/12/2018

Have you felt pain? No doubt you have! We have all felt pain, and at least 1 in 5 of us have endured persistent pain or continue to endure ongoing pain of some form. Pain is a fabulous survival mechanism, which keeps us safe, however sometimes our fear response can learn to overprotect our bodies, and the pain overstays it's welcome and can be disabling - physically and mentally. The great news is, with the appropriate education and management, pain doesn't have to endure! I'm hoping while people are in the 'giving' Christmas spirit I can encourage some fundraising for my Pain Revolution ride! I've got my cycling training kicked off, I'm ticking over the weekly kms and climbs. But I need to kick off the fundraising too! I'm required to raise $3000 over the next couple of months which goes towards persistent pain neuroscience research. Myself and a team of likeminded health professionals and scientists will be cycling across Tasmania in March 2019 and stopping off to rural communities where we will provide the latest evidence based education on persistent pain and how to retrain your brain to unlearn pain! We are up against many challenges and misinformation, so whatever you can contribute will be amazing. If you have any questions please message me, and please feel free to share around xx

I've created this page because I want to make a difference in the way people understand pain and there is a lot of misinformation out in the public. Working in pain management and seeing the significant changes made in peoples lives when provided with the correct support and understanding of pain, h...

09/12/2017

Are you sedentary? Want to get up and move more? Below, is great explanation for why movement alone is so great for you, independent of diet! Although I advocate for getting a healthy 'balance' across all lifestyle variables, (nutrition, exercise, relationships, sleep and stress) this research shows the power of exercise on our microbiota function irrespective of other lifestyle variables. Specifically, a super important short chain fatty acid, Butyrate, produced by bacteria in our gut increases with exercise. It not only has the capacity to program cell death of dodgy cells in our intestine (potentially cancerous), reduce inflammation, but it also impacts on brain function, both from a mental health and neurodegenerative perspective. We can reduce anxiety and ward off dementia. We have known for a while that we can shift our microbiota and increase Butyrate production with high fibre diets (in particular with pre-biotic and resistant starch foods), but exciting to know that exercise alone can also raise these fabulous fatty acids in our body!

Two studies offer the first definitive evidence that exercise alone can change the composition of microbes in the gut.

11/11/2017

I'm big on hugging! Hug much more people .... at least 5 a day keeps the psychologist away 😂🤗🤗🤗 This is a great article of the neuroscience behind feeling good 😊

From the most important question to ask yourself to the awe-inspiring power of physical contact...

12/10/2017

There's a good belly laugh right here! .....