Talking about the Problem of Pain
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.
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
Building More Safety for More Movement What do we do when knowing “moving isn’t as dangerous as it feels” is beneficial, but this only gets us so far? Is this is the best improvement we can expect? Or maybe there are other things that will help us move with more ease? Alex, like many people, …
Pregnancy is truly amazing. The physiology that occurs in a woman’s body to make a baby never ceases to amaze me. Over the ages, ideas about where babies come from and how they are made have changed as we have learned more. In spite of the entire process being well studied and much better understood, …
A healthy dose of good advice from Dr Melissa Cady on the common (and very scary!) questions about cancer and back pain.
Why do I get back pain when sitting? Should I wear a back brace? Why do I have more pain in the morning? Is sitting too much damaging my back? DPT Mark Kargela gives you the answers to these common questions.
