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Acute pain comes on suddenly and can be extremely uncomfortable. Sometimes there seems to be no good reason for it. Sometimes it comes on at the time of an injury, or it could be hours later. The good news is … Read More

Now that I have your attention… Your therapist isn’t a tool in the urban dictionary sense of the word, which is basically the equivalent of an idiot. Your therapist is a tool in more of a “means to an end” … Read More

Health Quality Ontario: Get High Quality Care with an Episode of Acute Low Back Pain There’s a lot of misinformation out there about what happens when low back pain occurs. This resource from Health Quality Ontario will help to ensure you can … Read More

Living With Pain: the Patient’s Perspective The following presentation gives voice to the patient and shows clinicians how patients perceive their care. Guests share their experiences with musculoskeletal therapists about trying to find a healthcare practitioner to listen to their journey … Read More

When The Scans Are Clean Have you visited your doctor about back or shoulder pain, had a scan and been told that there is nothing that can be found to explain your symptoms? That’s a pretty common experience, but can … Read More

  I outed myself as a skeptic at the recent 2018 INCAM Research Symposium titled Complementary and Integrative Medicine Research in an Era of Skepticism. I’m used to coming out. I have to come out as queer on a frequent … Read More

  Dr. Bronnwyn Thompson outlines what the literature says about pacing and some ways in which it can be helpful. “Pacing is an active self-management strategy whereby individuals develop self-efficacy through learning to balance time spent on activity and rest for … Read More

Pacing and goal setting are important parts of management for people with persistent pain. Here is a recent and very detailed overview of pacing from the National Health Service in the UK. Why set a pace? Pacing Is a technique … Read More

Pain BC is a resource for people with persistent pain and their healthcare providers. Their Mission “Improve the lives of people in pain through education, empowerment, and innovation. Promote prevention and early intervention in chronic pain and pain-related disability Educate, … Read More

We now realize that understanding pain is not as easy or simple as once thought. It used to be that if the scan showed disc disease we would consider that as a cause for the pain. Though the changes we … Read More