Friday funnies from the year 2010
Groan-producing Friday Funnies from the whole year (I couldn’t think of a complete sentence of alliteration, OK?). BTW many of these cartoons are created by me. Some posts are links. If you’d like to use some of mine, please feel free to. If any of the artworks are, by accident, copyright, please let me know … Read more
Skills, Strategies & Resources in 2010
Part of the reason for this blog is to introduce clinicians to some of the research and application of coping strategies for people with chronic pain. While I can summarise the year’s developments in (almost) a single sentence (see below!), it’s also true that I’ve posted a lot of really interesting findings about coping over … Read more
Topic Index
After writing for three years, and starting with very limited knowledge of how things like categories and tags worked, there are a lot of posts hidden in my backfiles that might be just what you’re looking for. So my project is to organise my posts into a topic index! Here are the first two. ACT … Read more
A year in review
This is the third year I’ve written this blog. As the year ends, numerous people will be reviewing the year, reflecting on the good, the bad and the indifferent, and like them, I will too. What has been the same this year is the endless need to repeat to all and sundry the following: All … Read more
Friday Funnies!
Before I head out to do a little Christmas shopping – yes, in a MALL, at CHRISTMAS! I must be mad – anyway, I had to pass on the following bits of gossip. It’s true, you heard it here first. Have a good weekend – and if there’s no post on Monday you’ll know it’s … Read more
Looking at you, looking at me: The effect of clinical encounters
I’ve been browsing the databases for information on clinical encounters. I do this because while I’m well aware of many papers produced on the topic of patient-related predictors of outcome, the swing towards considering clinician characteristics as predictors of outcome means I hope to see more published on this incredibly important topic. A wee while … Read more
Knowing how is not equal to doing
There have been several attempts to develop a standardised approach to self management – one of the most popular in New Zealand is the Flinders Program (TM). This is a programme developed in Australia from the 1990 Australian Coordinated Care Trials. It’s based on cognitive behavioural therapy, includes problem solving and motivational interviewing techniques, and … Read more
The pain system is so complicated!
There are a couple of ways to approach the problem of pain – the one I grew up with is the medical one: diagnose the problem, fix the problem, life returns to normal. The person’s role in this is to be open about what is wrong, let the treatment provider know the information (and only … Read more
Friday Funnies
SuperTherapist decided that if she gave out any advice today, she may just need to fear for her life, so she asked me to help out. SuperTherapist may need your help to vanquish the peripheralist demons from her memory – therapeutic videos to soothe the soul. If you haven’t heard them before – and you … Read more
