Dare to understand in Vancouver
Last week I was invited to have lunch with the staff at a physiotherapy and multidisciplinary clinic in Vancouver –Tall Tree Physiotherapy. While the meatballs in…
Question Eight visualised: What are the Target Concepts for the learner?
Lets revisit Question Eight in the Explain Pain Assessment Eight Great Questions series. The final question is about weaving the various threads, teased out via the previous seven…
‘The Healing Pain Podcast’ episode with David Butler
Joe Tatta has interviewed David Butler for The Healing Pain Podcast in an episode entitled ‘Explain Pain and the Biopsychosocial Model’. You can check out the…
Eating Explain Pain
On social media sites and in clinics all over, we often hear people saying “but I read Explain Pain,” as they list the therapies they have…
Visualisation of Question 6 in the Explain Pain Assessment Eight Great Questions
Lets talk about Question 6 in The Explain Pain Assessment Eight Great Questions – what is the learner’s current pain literacy? Health literacy is the ability to seek,…
“My soul is a hidden orchestra”
We receive and enjoy regular discussions about Explain Pain strategies at NOI. The most common question relates to plateauing – where a person has improved to…
Wear and tear – I rhyme every time
We all want our Explain Pain stories to be sticky, memorable and useful for our learners. There are many techniques that allow this, but one forgotten and…
Beskyt-o-meteret: En ny forståelse af smerte og smertehåndtering
Our friend Cecilie Høgsbro from Nordic Health Institute has very kindly translated our most popular post, DIM SIMs into Danish (also available in French and German). Efter…
Adult Pain!
When I was a boy, and got injured, I didn’t receive too much sympathy. Usually, I was blamed for getting injured in the first place. Equally,…
Let’s recap, and then two more questions
Two questions this week, but before we get there, a quick recap… So far we have asked three questions as part of The Explain Pain Assessment:…
