What is Chronic Pain?
What is Chronic Pain?
Chronic Pain
Chronic pain has a very simple definition - a pain that you have been experiencing for 3 months or more. This may be consistent pain during the entire 3 months or more, or intermittent pain for 3 months or more.
An example of this would be your low back starting to bother you one day, then getting better on it's own, then flaring up again. Or you wake up one morning and can't raise your arm so you make an appointment with the physical therapist. You complete treatment, feel great, and then the pain comes back.
Continuing these cycles of treatment and recovery, while still dealing with the same pain over and over again, is a frustrating cycle to get stuck in. The reason for this is because nothing else has changed. You treated the symptom, calmed down the alarm bells, but did not change anything else. Your lifestyle/recovery habits are still the same. Your training is the same. Changes need to happen outside of treatment in order for the results of treatment to stick.
The changes that need to happen include but are not limited to:
Easing back into training with a professional who understands your pain, how to rebuild your strength, how to assess for compensations and imbalances, and how to navigate flare-ups with you.
Bring your activity and recovery back into balance - address your sleeping habits, diet, and stress levels.
Understand how to navigate your pain. What should you do when experiencing a flare-up? What factors contribute to flare-ups and how can you regain control?
If you can address even one of these areas, you will have less pain and finally remove yourself from the continuous cycle of treatment and recovery
Chronic pain has a very simple definition - a pain that you have been experiencing for 3 months or more. This may be consistent pain during the entire 3 months or more, or intermittent pain for 3 months or more.
An example of this would be your low back starting to bother you one day, then getting better on it's own, then flaring up again. Or you wake up one morning and can't raise your arm so you make an appointment with the physical therapist. You complete treatment, feel great, and then the pain comes back.
Continuing these cycles of treatment and recovery, while still dealing with the same pain over and over again, is a frustrating cycle to get stuck in. The reason for this is because nothing else has changed. You treated the symptom, calmed down the alarm bells, but did not change anything else. Your lifestyle/recovery habits are still the same. Your training is the same. Changes need to happen outside of treatment in order for the results of treatment to stick.
The changes that need to happen include but are not limited to:
Easing back into training with a professional who understands your pain, how to rebuild your strength, how to assess for compensations and imbalances, and how to navigate flare-ups with you.
Bring your activity and recovery back into balance - address your sleeping habits, diet, and stress levels.
Understand how to navigate your pain. What should you do when experiencing a flare-up? What factors contribute to flare-ups and how can you regain control?
If you can address even one of these areas, you will have less pain and finally remove yourself from the continuous cycle of treatment and recovery
How The Course Works
How The Course Works
1. Sign Up
2. Learn About Pain
3. Learn From Others
4. Implement What You Learn
Sign up for the Complete Pain Education program and gain access to the course.
Dive into the program and begin learning why you are experiencing pain in the first place, along with what you can do about it.
Read the various case studies of our clients who were experiencing chronic pain and what we did to eliminate it.
Don't just learn what you need to do and then never do it. Put it into practice with recommendations on how to implement the education and make your new habits last.
