17/07/2025
🚨Hot off the press🚨
A new paper has just been published in Frontiers by Moseley and colleagues regarding the history, current state, and future of Pain Science Education.
Individuals who self-identify as ‘improved’ or ‘recovered’ highlight the value of reconceptualising pain in their journey. However, the implementation presents real-world challenges, including barriers for clinicians and patients.
A growing body of evidence has demonstrated the value of Pain Science Education in the treatment and facilitation of sense-making. However…
🗣 “The content of Pain Science Education has not escaped criticism. Those criticisms can be grouped into “its content is wrong” and “its delivery is invalidating or dangerous”. These criticisms are rare, but those who hold them are very vocal, primarily through social media channels, or via letters of concern sent to our dissemination and outreach partners, our employers, research funders or the learned societies of which we are members. Respectful and constructive criticism is critical in science, particularly in a field such as ours in which substantial knowledge and translational gaps, inconsistent terminology and field-specific jargon, exist. We take the opportunity here to discuss these criticisms.”
This paper engages seriously with those issues — through data, patient perspectives, and reflection on decades of research.
