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How occupational engagement might work in pain management
Intuitively, most of us know that when we’re actively involved in doing something we either enjoy or is sufficiently complex enough to need attention, we can lose awareness of things like hunger… more →
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wrote 8 months ago: Hello everyone, Just wanted to post a quick blog to try show you what the thinking is behind our cha … more →
How occupational engagement might work in pain management
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wrote 1 year ago: Intuitively, most of us know that when we’re actively involved in doing something we either en … more →
Pain reduction doesn't (always) reduce disability
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wrote 1 year ago: The relationship between pain and disability is a particularly vexing one in primary care. It would … more →
What to do when a patient is "inconsistent"
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wrote 1 year ago: I’m a practical person, despite occasional flights of fancy dreaming of a health service that … more →
"Faking" pain - and inconsistency in presentation
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wrote 1 year ago: There is a common belief amongst some people involved in pain and pain management that a person with … more →
Empathy, distress and mindfulness
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wrote 1 year ago: One of the main thrusts of the paper by Hadjistavropoulos, Craig, Duck, Cano, Goubert, Jackson, et a … more →
Seeing is believing?
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wrote 1 year ago: I am slowly wending my way through a long, complex and incredibly important article by a group of re … more →
Which comes first: Doing or knowing?
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wrote 1 year ago: Received wisdom in cognitive behavioural therapy says that to change behaviour, a person must first … more →
Around and around and around we go - or...back to the beginning again
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wrote 1 year ago: In the early days of non-medical chronic pain management, operant models of behavioural learning wer … more →
Self management - a very vexing definition
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wrote 1 year ago: Self management is one of those terms that is used to describe the aim of cognitive behavioural prog … more →
Low mood and catastrophising - one is bad, two is worse
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wrote 1 year ago: Having pain that persists creates a lot of stress, but there are many people who can limit the effec … more →
More Managing Migraines without Medication
wrote 1 year ago: Anyone familiar with migraine will know the first signs of an impending attack. What might be a litt … more →
Managing Migraines without Medication
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wrote 1 year ago: Ahhh, migraine – psychedelia without the high… nausea without the alcohol… The dia … more →
Using the Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire
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wrote 1 year ago: Over the past few months I’ve been using the Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire (CPAQ-8) as … more →
What matters: patient-determined outcomes and clinician/researcher outcomes
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wrote 1 year ago: It’s easy to forget, sometimes, that when we choose an outcome measure, we need to seriously c … more →
Self efficacy and fear of movement mediate pain intensity and disability in acute pain
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wrote 1 year ago: Most clinicians working in chronic pain management are well aware that the time it takes for people … more →
“Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion”
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wrote 1 year ago: That quote from Robbie Burns. For such a long time it seems that pain research has focused only on t … more →
What is this thing called pain?
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wrote 1 year ago: As I’m busy writing up research papers for publications to “count” towards my rese … more →
Black and white thinking must be abolished
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wrote 1 year ago: Black and white thinking, for those readers unfamiliar with cognitive distortions, refers to the ten … more →
