Pain Care Tips

Pain Care Tip Twenty-One

September 22, 2018

We need to listen—closely, and often—to our bodies and to our pain, before we hear the message it’s telling us—clearly, or comprehend it—fully.

Pain Care Tip Twenty

September 22, 2018

With practice, and with confidence in your abilities, these skills will turn pain care practices into self-efficacy practices.

Pain Care Tip Nineteen

September 22, 2018

Pain disconnects us from our body. Regardless of how severe your pain, your body is one of the most powerful ways to manage it.

Pain Care Tip Eighteen

September 22, 2018

It sounds like an odd idea, but your brain can’t really tell the difference between thought and reality. This is why athletes visualize, to improve success with difficult-to-achieve movements.

Practice vivid visualizations of the movements you want to recover. Really use your imagination—see yourself moving with less pain, more ease.

Start with what you think is possible, and shoot for the moon as you get better at it. The more you practice,

Pain Care Tip Seventeen

September 22, 2018

Grief is one of the most commonly overlooked aspects of pain care.

Pain Care Tip Sixteen

September 22, 2018

The changes we experience when pain persists—in our body, breath, thought, emotions and spirit—start to look similar, regardless of the original source of the pain.

Sometimes the best answers come from doing what’s best for all aspects of our self, rather than just focusing on the source of the pain.

Pain Care Tip Fifteen

September 22, 2018

The professional treatments we receive are best considered boosters to the real treatments—the personal treatments we do to move with more ease, and live well again.

The best first step for you might be to perform a loving, thoughtful self-assessment—of all of the things from which the pain has disconnected you—before you can find the best way to care for yourself.