When living with chronic pain, the thought of doing exercise or having too much movement throughout the day can be very daunting.
Jordan Miller explores some of the most recent research on movement and chronic pain. He discusses how strategies drawn from behavioral therapy are leading to new developments in physiotherapy to assist people with pain who would like to move more and experience less pain with activities. These strategies may help people with pain do more of the activities that they enjoy.
Learning Outcomes
Understand the science of how movement can reduce pain and increase the amount of activity you are able to perform before experiencing an increase in pain.
To feel comfortable trying new movements and activities to reduce pain and improve your movement.
To apply the principles of graded exposure to gradually increase participation in the activities you would like to do more of.