Still in pain a year or more later?
Still in pain after pills, meds, injections, operations, massages, treatments and interventions?
To treat pain we need to understand it. We need to let go of ideas of a single cure or that a combination of certain ideas may find the perfect mix to resolve it and we definitely need to relinquish these as being a crutch we cannot do without.
As a rule of thumb if you are only treating anatomy and physiology, you are not treating pain.
Many will be familiar with the bio psychosocial model of pain and whilst it is correct it needs to be understood that this model is wildly misused in fact a recent research investigated how it is lost in translation and misrepresented. I have seen many personal training, yoga and Pilates courses chuck in a segment on this as a tick box with a nod to modernisation but huge deficit in how it is portrayed and taught.
Pain is about the brain and many factors such as distraction, mood, beliefs and perceptions can play roles in helping or indeed, hindering. ‘Pain is all in the mind’ is the most disturbing misinterpretation of the model I have come across and we need to do better to help people understand their personal triggers and aids, how to approach a flare or set back and how to move and function day to day. Pain provision should above all be empathetic, unique, listening and empowering and if you are still unable to interrupt persistent pain, it’s time for a new provider and plan.
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