Posted on June 18, 2008 by adiemusfree
Having looked all over the place for some suitable activities for people to become aware of their own pain behaviour and then learn to change it, I decided to put together one of my own. Now, unlike the posts I’ve made recently, I have no research to determine its effectiveness, but I hope you’ll [...]
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Posted on May 14, 2008 by adiemusfree
If ever there was an over-used quote from a pop-psychology book the ‘feel the fear’ quote has to be a prime contender! However, in exposure therapy for kinesiophobia, this is exactly what we are doing. If we don’t activate the feeling of anxiety just a teeny tiny bit, then we are not going [...]
Filed under: Chronic pain, Clinical reasoning, Cognitive behavioral therapy, Cognitive skills, Coping Skills, Low back pain, Motivation, Relaxation, psychology, research, therapy | Tagged: anxiety, avoidance, behavioural, CBT, Chronic pain, cognitive therapy, exposure therapy, fear, kinesiophobia, movement, phobia, relaxation, therapy | No Comments »
Posted on April 3, 2008 by adiemusfree
It’s not always easy to find freely available client worksheets that reflect ‘real life’ situations, and are written for the age and reading level of the people we often see. For example, most of the people I work with are practical ‘hands-on’ people who don’t like reading or writing, and are either very visual [...]
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Posted on April 2, 2008 by adiemusfree
If you’re wanting a short, practical and interactive workshop on using cognitive and behavioural approaches for managing chronic pain, book yourself in for the CBT Workshop on 2nd, 3rd, and 4th May 2008.
This workshop is an introduction to using cognitive and behavioural approaches with people experiencing chronic pain, and is designed for occupational therapists, physiotherapists, [...]
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Posted on January 24, 2008 by adiemusfree
One website I keep returning to is this Cognitive behavior management reference holds a wealth of resources that are mainly in the public domain (provided they are attributed appropriately).
There are three main areas covered on the site:
* Cognitive Rehabilitation: This has two components, cognitive restructuring and cognitive error correction. [...]
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Posted on December 27, 2007 by adiemusfree
Biofeedback is an approach to revealing the inner states of human functioning so that people can develop control. In pain management it can take many different forms from surface electro-myography (sEMG), skin conductance (SC), blood volume pulsimetry (BVP), respiration rate, and heart rate variability. It can even be as simple as readings on two scales [...]
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Posted on November 14, 2007 by adiemusfree
Cognitive and behavioural therapies (CBT) are not one single ‘therapy’, but a group of interventions that are combined in pain management to help the person develop ways to continue living despite their pain.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is based on the idea that how we think (cognition), how we feel (emotion), and how we act (behaviour) [...]
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