Posted on May 15, 2008 by adiemusfree
From what I’ve posted so far this week, you might think that I would propose exposure therapy be something for all therapists to use with people, but no! I think it’s something that only some people will adopt, and it’s only useful for some people. Although all of us can incorporate some aspects of [...]
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Posted on May 13, 2008 by adiemusfree
One of the biggest challenges when working with someone who is fearful of pain and avoids movement is that although it’s very much like any sort of phobia, it differs on one essential point: people who are spider phobic, socially phobic, fearful of flying or heights or whatever are usually aware at some level that [...]
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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 February 27, 2008 by adiemusfree
At last, something dear to my heart hits the news!
I dropped into MedWorm and skimmed the headlines just a moment or two ago, and found this!!!
It was entitled ‘Hope for low back pain sufferers’ and initially my heart sank - not another ‘we can fix you’ article promising much relief from pain but possibly not [...]
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Posted on January 16, 2008 by adiemusfree
Posted on November 13, 2007 by adiemusfree
Once again out comes another ‘fix’ for back pain!
Researchers in the US in 1994 developed a continuous passive motion lumbar support, finding at that time that it produced ‘lumbar lordotic motion and improved comfort for subjects without histories of low back pain.’ In a second part of the same study, 28 people with chronic low [...]
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