It’s not rocket science – it’s respecting the individual

Friday funny!

Finally – truth and opinion

This is the last post in this mini-series on why I use science when deciding what interventions to use as a therapist.  As I did yesterday and the day before, I refer to William Palya’s book on research methods – it’s easy to read, available on the internet for free, and although it gives only [...]

Science and therapy

Yesterday I blogged about why I am so keen to use science to help me work ethically with clients. I talked about the basic onuses that we accept when we decide to become therapists, and showed how these are no more than what I would hope to receive if I saw a therapist or plumber [...]

Pain Blog Carnival!

Every month like clockwork ‘How to cope with Pain’ Blog has a carnival roundup of the best in pain management posts in the internet. If you haven’t visited before, head on over there today – loads of things to read, and links to places I’ll bet you haven’t been before.

Why I care about science and evidence

I caught myself wondering in the last few days about why I am so keen to pursue science and evidence-based approaches to health care.  I’m definitely consistent about wanting to know why something works, and equally consistent about knowing that it works – at the same time I meet people every day who don’t believe [...]

Sleep – pain – sleep – pain – sleep

Today a client and I were discussing sleep. She said to me
‘Why is it that I can’t get off to sleep because I’m so sore, then I have a bad pain day, I’m really tired,
and I still can’t go off to sleep, so the next day I have a worse pain day.’
We’ve known anecdotally [...]

If you find it hard to slow down…

Self regulation is something we learn to do to achieve goals – it’s all about establishing what the goal is, find out how close we are to the goal, the gap between where we are and where we want to be, and what we need to do to get there. This is a reasonably [...]

maybe in an alternative universe…

I read recently that about 70% of New Zealanders use ‘alternative’ medicines (NZ Medical Journal, 2007) – more than in many countries, and very common among the people I see who have longterm pain. (As an aside, have you ever wondered at the irony of someone who refuses to put nasty chemicals into their [...]

Because it’s a gray old day today…