So, patients want and expect pain relief. Should that be our end goal then? Do whatever we can to relieve pain? It might not necessarily be what brought them to us (perhaps it’s their disability levels), but when they do come to us, they want pain relief. The question that I struggle with still is […]
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Research Review #2: Why do patients come to see us?
Someone challenged me with this question in the past. I think this is a great question because our treatment should be tailored towards what the patient wants. I think the most common belief among therapists and patients themselves is that patients come to see us because of pain. If that’s true, then our treatment should […]
Course Review – Reconciling Biomechanics with Pain Science
I attended Greg Lehman’s Reconciling Biomechanics with Pain Science course again at the beginning of October and it was a great refresher! The purpose of this post is to summarize my take-away points and discuss how this course has and will continue to benefit me. Take-away points (in no particular order): The human body is […]
A challenge to my former self
I re-read my blog post on some thoughts I had about pain after listening to an interview with Stu McGill. It’s interesting to see how my thoughts on pain have developed since I wrote that post 1.5 years ago. I would like to challenge my former self about the ideas I wrote down and the […]
Some thoughts on pain
This wasn’t supposed to be my next blog post but I got really excited to share this “aha” moment of mine! I just read Bret Contreras’ transcribed interview with Stu McGill yesterday and I thought there were a lot of interesting discussions that made me stop and think. In particular, I really enjoyed their discussion […]