The Right Advice is Your Best Pain Medicine
Information about pain can be confusing and hard to understand.
Working out how to keep living well is even harder.
Here’s the expert advice you’ve been looking for.
If you have ongoing pain, have you noticed how the intensity of your pain can change from day to day? Your actions, environment, thoughts, beliefs, body signals and the people around you have a big impact on your feelings of pain. Health care practitioners often ask you when your pain is the worst, so they …
Use the Positive Power of Distraction for Pain CareRead More
Hands-on pain treatment shouldn’t hurt! When you think about physical therapy, manual therapy, massage or self-treatment techniques like foam rollers and massage balls, what else do you think of? “Ouch” is what people often think, even when there’s some relief associated with that increased pain! There seems to be a long-held attitude of “No pain, …
Treating Pain with Kindness 3: The Power of Touch TreatmentRead More
Getting to Know Your Nervous System Most people have some sense of what the human skeleton looks like, but what about the nervous system? It’s a wonderful web of nerve fibers that connect your brain and spinal cord (your central nervous system) to your body via a system of branching nerves (peripheral nerves). These nerves …
Treating Pain with Kindness 2: Get to Know Your NervesRead More
What are the knots in my back muscles? Can massage fix my back pain? Is my back pain caused by tight muscles? These common questions answered by DPT Jarod Hall.
Searching for a Fix for Persisting Pain If you have ongoing pain, I bet you have had many people suggest they can “fix” your pain with medications, injections or surgery. If you have persisting pain, you probably wish that they could! Most doctors and health care providers genuinely want to help you. However, they often …
Do You Know the Risks and Rewards of Pain Treatments?Read More
Imagination, Visualization, and Pain Sometimes just thinking about moving can worsen pain. Many of us have experienced watching someone else get hurt, and winced as if the pain were affecting us. We describe this as feeling another’s pain, yet the reason it hurts to watch is that we imagined how it would feel if it …
How to Move with Chronic Pain Step 3: VisualizationRead More
