ABOUT MARK

Mark Grant is a psychologist with over 15 years experience treating sufferers of pain and stress. In addition to his clinical work Mark has studied and written about the problem of stress and pain, mainly for fellow professionals, although his ideas have also been cited in the New York Times (11/6/7 - 'Living With Pain That Just Won't Go Away').

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E-mail:markgra@ozemail.com.au
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analuzgra@ozemail.com.au

Phone/fax: 61 2 9960 5591
Or; mobile: 0402 122 173

Consulting rooms/'snail mail':
Crows Nest Psychology
Level
7, 28 Clarke St
Crows Nest
Sydney NSW 2065
Australia

Wyong Medical Centre
Margaret St
Wyong NSW 2259
Australia

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Welcome to Overcoming pain.com. This website is designed to help you understand and overcome chronic pain. This website is founded on the notion that chronic pain is partly maintained by stress, whether as an effect of pain, or as a predisposing factor. This is not to deny the physical reality of pain or the injury that may have triggered it, merely that there is often a component of pain which is maintained by stress. For example, chronic pain causes sleeping problems which cause fatigue, which makes it harder to cope. Anxiety and depression, two common emotional reactions to chronic pain, can also exacerbate pain through their effects on perception and coping. Stress can also be a predisposing factor for pain; people who have suffered stressful childhoods are more likely to develop chronic pain.*

Increased understanding of the connection between pain and stress, based on advances in brain scanning technology and discoveries from the field of stress research have led to more effective ways of overcoming pain. These range from traditional methods such as relaxation and keeping active, to more innovative strategies such as Dual Attention Stimulus. This new approach to overcoming pain is designed to be consistent with the way your nervous system stores and processes information, making it easier for you to unlearn the painful patterns which maintain your pain – the aim is to neutralize the sensory-emotional reactions which maintain pain. Inside you will find a range of resources aimed at helping you understand your pain differently and learning how to overcome it.