Improve Your Chronic Pain By Doing the Very Things That Cause Your Pain
One of the principles I use with treating chronic pain is exposure therapy. This involves doing the very things that cause pain. If we can learn to do these things from a different mental perspective (move…
How Does Self-Efficacy Affect Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain?
Self-efficacy is your belief in your own abilities to deal with various situations. Wanted to share a Journal of Pain 2018 review study that compiled data from 27 previous studies on self-efficacy and…
The Nocebo and its Effects on Your Health
I see the Nocebo effect in so many of my chronic pain and chronic health patients. It's not talked about as much as it should, even though we have solid research it plays a big part in health symptoms.…
More On The Power of Beliefs
I have never forgotten a quote I read years ago that said: 'What you believe is what your life will be.'
I wanted to share this study from Stanford which shows how beliefs directly impact physiology.…
Beliefs Are Numero Uno for Changing Your Brain
Nice summary in link below by Dr. Siegel from Harvard about the power of the placebo. What is the placebo: Your beliefs. With chronic pain that doesn't go away, we know the brain has been shown to be a…
What do IBS, chronic widespread pain, & chronic fatigue have in common?
Irritable bowel, chronic widespread pain, chronic fatigue and related syndromes are prevalent and highly overlapping in the general population. This is the title of a new 2020 study, which just reaffirms…
Is flexing your spine to lift a risk factor for low back pain?
Research evidence in 9 of 11 studies show that lifting with a flexed (bent over) spine is NOT a risk factor for low back pain. We need more studies but what the current research says falls in line with…
3 Game Changing Concepts of Pain
Great to see more and more awareness coming forth in our PT profession about the understanding of pain, how we think about it, and how we treat it.
Recent Feb 2020 article titled: What have Pain Sciences…
Shoulder MRI’s in Asymptomatic elite volleyball athletes shows extensive ‘pathology’
Here's a recent 2019 study showing that Olympic level volleyball players who are playing with no symptoms have extensive "pathology" in the shoulder. The reason I share these studies is to educate people…
Catastrophizing A Predictor Of Chronic Pain After Knee Replacement
What better study to show the power of negative thinking (catastrophizing) and how it can contribute to chronic pain than looking at people who have had a whole knee joint replaced but continue to have…
