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Feb 25 5 tweets 3 min read
You want to grow as a therapist or clinician.

In particular, to help people who are suffering persistent pain, whatever their circumstances.

Different ages, backgrounds, circumstances, occupations.

Persistent pain affects people right across society.

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How well equipped are you to help them?

Do you understand pain sufficiently well to be able to help the person understand all their experiences?

Do you have the skills and toolbox to help them navigate the way forward to shape a positive future?

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Do you have self-awareness and an ability to be present as we must?

Do you know your own philosophy? Play to your strengths?

This is just some of the work we do together, cultivating your beginner’s mind and openness to learning so that you can grow and flourish.

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And in so doing, you guide, encourage and support others on their journey.

For more information, get in touch about 1:1 mentoring.

#thepaincoach #pain #physio

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More from @painphysio

Feb 27
We have beliefs about pain.

Most people have experienced pain (a rare few can’t) and have been told things about it.

The one thing the person knows is that it hurts and has a particular quality—the actual experience.

#thepaincoach #pain

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Then there’s the story. What we tell ourselves: What has happened? What it means? What’s the cause? The future? All are highly convincing yet often wrong.

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The misunderstanding of pain could be the most important reason why persistent pain has become a leading global health burden & why treatment outcomes are so poor.

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Feb 26
With chronic conditions such as persistent pain, fibromyalgia, CFS, ME and more recently Long Covid, people are still dismissed when their tests show nothing of note.

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The idea that a negative test (or tests) means that there is nothing wrong is ignoring the plain fact that there is something wrong.

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The person has just explained how they are feeling. Have they been heard? Many haven’t and that is unacceptable. Even some doctors have not been believed by other doctors!

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Feb 26
You won’t find the cause of your pain on a scan or a x-ray.

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Firstly, you cannot see pain on a scan or in the person. There is nothing to see.

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And just in case you are thinking brain patterns, you are seeing a brain pattern not pain. Those coloured pictures in studies are also created to show certain things that the authors want you to see, so read the method carefully…

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Feb 23
There are different types of session that we have.

But first of all, they are always focused on you.

#thepaincoach #pain

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Initial session to meet, clarify what is happening for you in your world, and your picture of success.

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Growth sessions are those when we look at practices, tools, exercises, strategies and importantly, how to best implement them in your world. To make a difference. To create the conditions for your growth and to shape a positive future.

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Feb 22
How do you communicate?

To others and yourself.

Is it the same or different?

Can you listen deeply, to see the needs of the other person, but also yourself?

Can you recognise the roots of suffering?

Cont.

#thepaincoach #pain #communication #compassion

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See the nature and cause of suffering, which allows you to help.

You use loving speech to people you care about.

Do you use the same language to yourself?

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You can practice compassionate listening to another person and yourself.

To understand. To validate. To be present. To help the other person and you to suffer less.

Mindful practice enables this.

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Feb 22
Pain has appeared in philosophy from ancient times.

But now, philosophy is contributing enormously to contemporary thinking and understanding of pain.

In particular, enactivism and embodied cognition.

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#thepaincoach #pain
Both are helping to question existing ideas. For example, enactivism takes us beyond the brain as an explanation for pain.

Pain is of course, not in the brain.

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Enactivism sees a person with a lived experience (embodied) within a lived world (embedded), acting in particular ways (enacting) with emotions and an extended mind.

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