You've researched and tried everything to find an answer to why you're still in pain. The frustration can come from the fact that you are highly capable, successful and solution focused. You understand problems very well and you tend to fix them. But this one keeps evading you. You may even think you're not doing enough.Or that you must be doing something wrong. Or this is just the way it's going to be now. "If I just understand it more".... I used to think that too. But your

Pain and tension improve. Then it comes back. This isn’t usually bad luck. And it isn’t always structural failure. When something repeatedly improves and then returns, there is often a pattern still active underneath it. When pain, stiffness, or internal reactions keep reappearing, the nervous system is usually still predicting strain or threat. The Cycle of Pain Prediction drives preparation. Preparation becomes tension. Tension becomes restriction. Restriction becomes pain.

Where do you start, when knowing how your nervous system works hasn't changed what it does? You start with something you already have. A client of mine said something while we were working on his back that stopped me in my tracks. He said, this is just like business. When something goes wrong, you don't stare at the one thing that's not working. You strengthen everything around it, so the weak point isn't carrying the whole load on its own. Exactly. When he told me he was wai

Pain was the instigator. It's where I started with all of this, because I couldn't get out of my own way. Sometimes, I still catch myself "No Tine, NO. That is not the way to do things." And I see it in so many people: they don't understand why they do what they do, despite at times knowing better. Why they can start a gym programme, or know exactly how to take better care of their health, and still not keep to it. It shows up in the small things first. The coffee in the wron

What understanding pain, a dog on a lead and a Formula 1 car can teach us about changing established responses. You can understand everything there is to know about your condition, read all the books about pain and the nervous system, and still experience exactly the same difficulties. Because information doesn't necessarily change how we experience something. We can understand why pain occurs, what the nervous system does and how the brain processes information. But knowing

by Anne-Martine Dicke I’ve been thinking about the people I tend to see after pain has been around for quite some time. Those are often the people I think about. They’re very rarely short of information. By the time somebody has been dealing with something for several months or even years, they can usually give me a thoroughly detailed history. They know what the scan said. They remember which treatment helped and for how long. They know which movements tend to cause trouble,

By Anne-Martine Dicke When you are dealing with chronic pain, keeping a detailed log of your symptoms could feel like the right thing to do. Doctors often ask for these logs, and tracking apps encourage you to monitor every shift in your physical state. But if your pain is driven by a sensitized nervous system, symptom tracking is one of the biggest hidden obstacles to your recovery. The Monitoring Trap: Feeding the Alarm When pain persists past standard tissue healing times

by Anne-Martine Dicke If someone has told you your pain is "neuroplastic," "mind-body," or "driven by your nervous system," your first reaction might be skepticism, frustration, or even anger. To most people, that sounds like a polite medical way of saying: "The pain is in your head," "You're imagining it," or "You're making it up." Let's clear that up immediately: Your pain is 100% real. The physical burning, aching, sharp sensations, or spasms you feel are genuine biologica

You've had the scan and the report has been read more than once. You've searched for answers, asked questions and spoken to the people you hoped would have them. Some questions have been answered. Others remain. You may know what has been found, yet still not know whether it explains everything you're experiencing. You may understand the diagnosis, but not why the symptoms behave the way they do. You may even have been told that the findings don't fully explain what you're fe

There is often a great sense of relief when a scan is finally arranged. Sometimes that relief comes because the scan answers an important question. It identifies something that needs urgent attention or provides a clear diagnosis. It can bring direction, reassurance and a plan. But not every scan ends there. Sometimes the report explains what can be seen, yet leaves a person with a completely different problem. They don't know what to do next. And that feeling can be far wors

Often people forget the incredible things they have already done in their lives. Or what it took to get them there. What it was like at the beginning of that journey and the navigation of the challenges that lay up ahead. The unexpected curve balls. The sleepless nights. The worry. The things you thought you might never do and yet have done. One of the biggest mistakes we make when it comes to change is believing that we have to remove everything we don’t like before we can m

Relationships rarely end because of one argument. Yet that's usually the argument people remember. People talk about the final conversation. The disagreement that pushed things over the edge. The comment that shouldn't have been made and the assumptions which were misplaced. The moment one person finally decides they had had enough. That, that is the last straw. But relationships don't usually end because of a single conversation. The final argument wasn't the cause. It was t

by AMD, AMDtherapie Losing trust in your body is a particular kind of pain on levels no-one really talks about. The pain in itself, the dissapointment, the frustration, the grief and fear at losing what or who we think we are. Because no one can feel what it is like to be you. Faced in an unfamiliar and uncertain situation without a clear way ahead. It may begin with pain or varying symptoms that arrived without clear cause, or a system that stopped responding the way you ex

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