Optimizing Relationships To Manage Pain
Relationships play a crucial role in chronic pain. Having a healthy support network can help you cope with chronic pain while being socially isolated or being in a toxic relationship can significantly worsen your condition. Isolation Many people with chronic pain stop socializing with others because they feel miserable, but by doing this, they lose […]
Regulating Thoughts And Emotions To Control Pain
Two people with the exact same disease can have very different outcomes. Why is that? A large part of this is due to how each individual perceives the disease and the changes that the disease has made to his/her life. Having negative thoughts and emotions is absolutely normal when going through a life altering experience; […]
Moving Without Pain
Why is it that some people tend to get injured more during physical activities than others? One important factor that can determine your risk of injury (and something that is completely within your control) is how you move. The field of biomechanics, which looks at the effects of movement and forces on the body, can […]