Many rely on medication to manage pain. Patients often come to me with the fear that the negative side-effects of these medications may be long-term. In this video, find out how this fear may be contributing to your chronic pain, and how to reverse this cycle. One of the most important things to remember […]
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There’s a strong link between perfectionism and chronic pain. We build our self-esteem in early childhood, and many develop perfectionism as a beneficial trait. This serves us well and is valued in school, work, and many other areas of our life. But could this also be adding to chronic pain? Perfectionism lives deep inside […]
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I’ve spoken in the past about reactive pain and how we tie pain to particular activities, postures and movements. In this video, I explain how the mind-body connection affected my pain personally, and how you can do the same thing. When we experience a sudden spike of pain, it is easy to suddenly think “Oh […]
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I’m sharing this story with you to illustrate the power of belief – and how it can aid (or hinder) healing.
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In this video you’ll learn a quick thought experiment you can use any time to get stress relief – whether you have chronic pain, or are in another challenging situation. The thing is – chronic pain is stressful, and many people find that the stress increases their pain (as well as being bad for their […]
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Today we have with us Paul Ingraham – a science writer who spent ten years running a busy massage therapy practice before founding PainScience.com. He’s written for many other websites including ScienceBasedMedicine.org – but primarily for PainScience – where he gets around 25000 visitors a day. This interview is going to be interesting for a number of reasons. […]
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We’re going to look at an unusual role model for stress relief. General Joffre was a French commander during World War I. He commanded France at a time which you could say was France’s darkest hour. The Germans had almost reached Paris. Thousands of French troops were dying every day. The new weaponry both sides had developed was […]
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There’s a reason it’s very hard to imagine a future where you’re pain free. It’s the same reason why it’s hard to imagine being hungry after you’ve just eaten a big meal. Or feeling happy after ever again after a favourite pet has died. Or (in some cases) drinking again when you have an awful […]
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This story is meant to illustrate one aspect of dealing with chronic pain and developing resilience: You are travelling in a big bus along a road… Everything’s going just fine. You come round a corner and there is your pain – as a big pain monster. It’s there in the road in front of you […]
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The latest hit movie from English actor Benedict Cumberbatch is ‘The Imitation Game.’ It describes the true story of Alan Turing – mathematical genius who helped crack the secret codes of Nazi Germany during WWII. Some experts estimated this shortened WWII by 2-4 years. He did this by breaking the ‘unbreakable’ code of the Enigma machine. This machine encrypted […]
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