Talking about the Problem of Pain
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
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, …
Starting the journey from life altering pain to feeling well again.
Pain, Perplexity and Permission Slips: How I got from there to hereRead More
It can be hard to understand why pain can persist when your body is healthy. Phantom Limb Pain is a condition that occurs in amputees, and it gives you some clues about pain and the brain.
What this Weird Condition Tells Us about Persistent PainRead More
