Posted on June 5, 2008 by adiemusfree
I’ve posted before on the effects of disability that make coping a challenge - today I want to cover a few more areas. My aim is not to suggest a ‘poor me’ attitude towards people with chronic pain, but instead to highlight how these demands might affect core beliefs. This is an important [...]
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Posted on June 4, 2008 by adiemusfree
Trawling through the interweb can be enlightening sometimes. What’s exciting is to see the range of resources government agencies provide. I’ve just spotted these from the Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) from the Department of Health, Australia.
This list of fun activities in pdf includes some social ones as well as solitary ones, [...]
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Posted on May 26, 2008 by adiemusfree
For a therapy that has great empirical support and can be used by any and all members of the interdisciplinary team, you can’t really go far from cognitive behavioural therapy. Waaaay back in the olden days when I was originally trained as an occupational therapist, CBT was the province of psychologists only - and [...]
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Posted on April 23, 2008 by adiemusfree
Something that can really get my goat is when people think that because someone has high disability, and they have pain, it must be the pain that ’causes’ the disability - therefore reduce the pain, and you will inevitably reduce the disability.
This can lead to over-treatment of pain with medication (to reduce the pain, often [...]
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Posted on April 14, 2008 by adiemusfree
When we’re working with people who have pain, and especially when we’re asking them to do things differently, we’re going to notice ’shifts’ or changes in their presentation that suggest they’re responding to the situation - usually it’s an ‘automatic thought’ that’s jumping in, or perhaps it’s the emotional response to an AT that they’re [...]
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Posted on April 1, 2008 by adiemusfree
Victoria L. Mason, Beth Mathias, and Suzanne M. Skevington
This study examines an area of disability ‘adjustment’ that is becoming increasingly important in to therapists and others interested in what helps someone develop readiness to adopt self management rather than an ongoing search for a ‘cure’.
Acceptance refers to ‘a willingness to have pain without [...]
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Posted on March 25, 2008 by adiemusfree
Sometimes you stumble across something that you just can’t put better than it already is… Today’s one of those days, and I’ve found a website that summarises a whole bunch of coping strategies very neatly indeed.
Click this link to go to arthritis.about.com for a great range of pages covering topics like 10 ways to improve [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2008 by adiemusfree
Hypnosis and the analgesic effect of suggestions has been the subject of much study over the years. Only recently, however, have the specific effects of suggested analgesia vs deeper hypnotic induction been studied, and equally, it’s only been possible recently to study the mechanisms through which this phenomenon occurs.
In the January edition of Pain [...]
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Posted on February 2, 2008 by adiemusfree
One resource I can’t do without is new ideas for personal growth activities. I stumbled upon this one recently, and have found the activities a little different from some, and quite thought-provoking.
It’s always helpful to adapt something that is used with people who are ‘well’ rather than using something specifically designed for people with [...]
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Posted on January 14, 2008 by adiemusfree
For a very brief introduction to relaxation, click through to my Coping Skills section.
Relaxation training is a very popular component of pain management. By itself, relaxation can be an enjoyable experience, but when used as a way to extend activity and help a person maintain control, it becomes a very potent tool. It’s [...]
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