Category: Understanding Pain
Use when the primary aim is to reduce fear, explain pain, aging, sensitivity, or restore confidence.
Pain with Uncontrolled Movement & Overprotective Movement Strategies
Pain due to uncontrolled movement is a common symptom in people with chronic low back pain. Patients will describe having full or good range of movement and being able to do everything they want to but ONLY if they do …
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Treating Mind & Body – A Simple Biological Explanation
These days I find most of my clients are very open to discussing the mind & body connection which is central to my osteopathic work. I like to work with my clients to expand this idea with some thoughts about …
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Treating Mind & Body
As an Osteopath I treat mind and body, but I find it hard to think about the mind and body as separate entities. They are essential and interwoven elements of the person. I treat people. Think about how we use …
Number 1 Posture Tip to Avoid Back Pain
Most people with back pain get this wrong. Most people who’ve never had significant back pain get it right without realisisng it. All children get it right. It’s the opposite of what many profesionals have been saying for many years.
Case Study – Female with Lateral hip Pain
This anonymised case study is an example of what I do with real patients. It is published with permission, but the name has been changed. The Client Lucy is 44 year old primary school teacher. She is generally fit and …
Is chronic pain due to damage or sensitivity?
In many cases of chronic pain, I prefer to use the word ‘sensitivity’ instead of ‘pain.’ People associate pain with damage but chronic pain is often due to issues with the nervous system making it too sensitive rather than physical …
Sat Nav for Pain – Chronic Pain Movement Strategies.
A few years ago, on a wet miserable winter night somewhere in North Yorkshire I was driving home, and the road ahead was blocked. I didn’t have Sat Nav, a map or any local knowledge and there were no other …
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