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This is a question many of us ask ourselves and may struggle to answer. Put more simply, we might say, should I go out and [fill in the blank with your planned exercise/sport] today, or should I stay home and take it easy? Our response depends on the origin of the pain. Below is my answer, told...
A perfect storm, like chronic pain, emerges when numerous factors combine simultaneously. Merriam-Webster defines “perfect storm” as “a critical or disastrous situation created by a powerful concurrence of factors.” Let’s substitute chronic pain into this definition:...
Pain is:
“An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage.”
This updated definition of pain was provided by The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) last summer (July...
Please enjoy an excerpt from my book, Winning the Injury Game, available on Amazon.
Neurosciences Professor Dr. Lorimer Moseley says, “Pain is a construct of the brain.”1 Now to be clear, I am not suggesting that the pain is all in your head or that you are making it up....