Pain Management
Understanding. Structure. Consistency.
“Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage. Pain is subjective.”
– International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), 2020
Pain associated with our muscles, joints, and nerves can be an unpleasant experience, which can have a major impact on our physical, mental, and emotional health. This is where pain management fits in. We now know that a number of factors can contribute to the pain experience. These can include problems with the body’s structures, the way we control our body, our lifestyle, and the way we think and feel about our pain.
Therefore, the best way to manage pain is to understand its complexity, develop strategies to control it, and learn ways to get back to the things in life we enjoy. Sometimes this involves ‘hands on’ approaches to relieve your pain and restore function, but it always involves an active process of helping restore your function and health.
Pain physiotherapists are skilled to take you on this journey.
I recommend all people with persistent pain to watch these two videos as it highlights my philosophical approach in dealing with these disorders:
This 15 minute guided meditation helps create awareness about how your body stores emotion and stress. You will be guided to connect the physical sensations that you are feeling with thoughts, feelings, and memories that may be keeping those sensations stuck. This awareness provides a great foundation to work through contributing factors to your experience of persistent physical pain.
Curable is the first app for chronic pain self-care. It guides those with chronic pain through an effective and holistic pain therapy program – anytime, anywhere. It provides evidence-based chronic pain lessons in your pocket. It uses a combination of pain science education and research-backed techniques to address pain from every angle. The program helps you connect the dots between what’s happening in your brain, in your body, and in your life, to get a full picture of what’s causing your symptoms and how to relieve them.
Modern research shows that psychological and emotional elements can play a major role in chronic pain. These non-physical components can help the brain “learn” to be in pain, re-wiring the body’s neural circuitry to perpetuate the sensation of pain. With proper therapeutic attention, the brain can “unlearn” pain, paving the way to physical pain relief. Research shows that methods like education, writing, meditation, visualization, and cognitive behavioral therapy can successfully help the brain to stop this recurring pain cycle. The Curable recovery program incorporates this modern research into easily accessible education and exercises that help patients break the pain cycle and find relief from chronic pain.
To ensure that I am adding extra value to guide you on your pain management journey, I have partnered with Curable to offer 6 weeks free use of the app to my clients.
