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The “Big Sleep Out”
As a proud supporter of a local charity, Simon on the Streets, I took the opportunity to participate in their “Big Sleep Out”, with the aim of increasing awareness and funds for their incredible work to support homeless people. As…
Podcast Guesting – The Psychology of Case Management with Shabnam Berry-Khan, ‘The Neuroscience of Pain’
Keywords: persistent pain, chronic pain, teams, hopeful, Retraining Pain, medico-legal, rehabilitation, neuroscience, pain rehabilitation, complicated, Lorimer Moseley, David Butler, nervous system, danger, safety, overprotective, medicalized, physical, emotional, interdisciplinary, psychological, DIMs, SIMs, complex, empathy, righting reflex, polyvagal theory, sympathetic, parasympathetic, overwhelming,…
Podcast Guesting – Chronic Pain and Perfectionism on Pause, Purpose, Play with Michaela Thomas
Do you experience persistent, or chronic, pain? Or do you have a loved one who does? You might know how hard it is to pace yourself on a ‘good day’, overdoing it, and then ‘paying for it’ the next day.…
Be the change you want to see
‘Be the change you want to see in the world’ (a quote often attributed to Gandhi) has always struck a chord. Sometimes, words alone cannot convince others of the value of behaviour change, but we can model this by showing…
Case Managers, solicitors and care providers – what do you need for your clients with persistent pain?
What do we (as clinicians) think helps? We have been working as an interdisciplinary team for a long time across a variety of service provisions. Here’s what we’ve observed is helpful for people with persistent pain. Specialist clinicians who have…
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and persistent pain
What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)? ACT is a therapeutic approach developed by Stephen Hayes and colleagues (Hayes, Strosal & Wilson, 1999), and is part of the ‘third wave’ approaches of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT). In a nutshell, ACT…
What is a Pain Physio?
What is a pain physio? How is a pain physio different to a regular physio? Don’t all physios help people with pain? Questions often asked by patients, clients, health professionals, case managers and individuals involved with the rehabilitation process. Pain…
Readiness to change in clients with persistent pain
What is ‘readiness to change’? One of the things we want to assess when meeting a new client for the first time is ‘readiness to change’. This is based on the transtheoretical model (Prochaska & DiClemente, 1983) proposing that when…
So you’ve been referred to a pain psychologist?
Sometimes people feel daunted or upset by the idea of seeing a psychologist in relation to their pain problem. This is something that we hear a lot, and so we have put together this document to offer some more information.…
Looking after ourselves when working with complex clients
Do you ever have those days where you wish you could do a job that was a little more detached from emotion and other people’s pain? I know I do, even though I love what I do, and I bet…