There is a lot of misinformation surrounding persistent pain. A simple search on google on lower back pain will find you pages and pages full of outdated and debunked information. There is often a common theme, the separation of mind-body. The majority of information available still promotes the biomedical narrative, directly linking structural damage, disease, posture, biomechanics to be the cause of your pain. Although these are easy to understand, they are oversimplifying a complex problem.

Why it is important to understand that these are not facts, is that they can actually be harmful (Caneiro et al., 2021)(Jaremo et al., 2017)(Gardner et al., 2017)(Nijs et al., 2013). A common theme of these narratives is that you are broken, fragile, non-adaptable, disabled, unfixable which often lead to secondary problems such as pain, disuse (stop activities), depression, anxiety, social isolation, unnecessary medical tests and treatments, etc.

There are, however, amazing, reliable, accurate and sometimes entertaining resources as well. We have listed them below to prevent you from having to filter through the nonsense.