It was a piece of cake! Hypnosis for sleep and tummy pain

After briefly looking at hypnosis yesterday, I found this lovely case study written by Leora Kuttner of an 11 year old girl with problems going off to sleep, including tummy pain and anxiety.
The girl had been through CBT, and introduced to the idea that she had a ‘worry bug’, and that the way to rid [...]

Feeling the pain: distraction/relaxation or exposure

It’s not the pain, it’s the judgement of the pain that makes it so distressing – or at least, that’s how the cognitive behavioural model of pain views our experience of pain. As a result, most pain management therapies working to help people manage when their pain can’t be removed involves reviewing how people [...]

Seeing people progress

A quick post this morning before I search for some Friday funnies!
I saw a few patients this week after having had just over a fortnight off work – and you know how sometimes working in pain management can seem unrewarding, progress can be incredibly slow, one step forward, two sideways… Well here are some progress [...]

Light relief on a wet ‘n’ wild Friday

It’s really quite horrible outside.  Cold, rainy, windy – but I’m inside and not at work!
A reminder that the golden weather has only just left (for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere!)

…and that beauty can be found in left-over objects.

Oh, you wanted Friday Funnies?  Hold on, they’re on their way…

Manly Jack forwarded these to [...]

Friday Funnies!

Today it’s wet and horrid outside, so a quick visit to some cheerful spots might help prepare for the weekend.
So bad you have to laugh!

And finally for today:

see more Lolcats and funny pictures
And a couple of new pharmaceuticals you might look for on your next trip to the pharmacy…
EMPTYNESTROGEN
Suppository that eliminates melancholy and loneliness by [...]

‘My pain is no different, but I feel differently about it’

Anyone who works in pain management knows that sense of profound satisfaction when someone says ‘My pain is no different, but I feel differently about it’.  It’s a sign that something has shifted for the person, that they’ve started to move towards accepting it, taking charge of life again instead of waiting for, hoping for [...]

Taonga (treasures) from our Southern Summer Safari

Two images I took during our trip to the Catlins. Sadly we didn’t make it to Rakiura (Stewart) Island, they had swells of four meters (I cannot even think of that without feeling queasy…) and rain by the bucketful, so we spent more time in Te Anau, Gore, Moeraki and Oamaru… For those of [...]

A fortnight of no fixed abode…

One of my favourite things is to be able to take my watch off, turn my phone off, be away from town – and go bush. For the next fortnight I’ll be somewhere in the lower half of the South Island, New Zealand.
Manly Jack and I are taking off in the 4WD to meander [...]

Intermittent pain

I think intermittent pain must be one of the more challenging types of pain to have – one minute everything is going fine, then WHAMMO! out of the blue there is a bolt of electricity to hit the body.  The sort of pain I’m talking about here is primarily neuropathic pain, and I’m working with [...]

Funny? maybe just quirky!