Hello, my name is Trevor Barker, and I have experience living with persisting pain. After more than 20 years of persisting back pain, my life took a positive turn when I learned and applied the positive principles of pain science in my life. This is my story of how change was possible, even after many …
Comfort, Safety and Helping Yourself Out of Pain
When you get pain, either a new pain or some familiar pain, what’s the first thing you think? If you’re like most people, you’ll wonder “why”, and start asking questions like: “What did I do to hurt myself?” Or “How badly did I really injure myself if I can’t even remember doing anything strenuous?” Then …
Use the Positive Power of Distraction for Pain Care
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 …
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How to Move with Chronic Pain Step 3: Visualization
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 …
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How to Move with Chronic Pain Step 2: Breathing
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, …
Pain, Perplexity and Permission Slips: How I got from there to here
Starting the journey from life altering pain to feeling well again.
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