When living with pain are we without a body? A body that has made us who we are, when it goes wrong should we not be allowed to suffer? When we are without a body is it not a foreign experience to not be able-bodied? We possess a physical body and we possess an ability [...]
The more relations a body has, the more it is capable of doing Nick J.Fox, 2012 There’s a lot of unrest in a world dominated by pain. In a very literal sense, we can understand this as a lack of rest, fatigue, a disturbance of sleep, or available energy. In another sense, it describes [...]
The film The Truman Show is a fascinating journey into the life of Truman Burbank, who, over the course of the movie, realizes that his entire life has been one big reality TV show. A psychological comedy, the concept of The Truman Show is based upon a psychological condition called Truman delusion. People living with [...]
“Tell me your relation to pain, and I will tell you who you are!” Ernst Jüngers (1895 - 1998) I've been chatting and sharing thoughts on philosophy, creativity and art with a colleague, Eduan Breedt. After much discussion I invited Ed to share some of his musings in a blog. Take it away Ed! What [...]
Physiotherapy is one of the caring professions. It lies alongside Medicine, Nursing and the other Allied Health Professions. Every single human on the planet is entitled to healthcare, and whilst some populations of the world don’t not get adequate healthcare, there are others that are subjected to overdiagnosis and overtreatment (Maher, O’Keeffe, Buchbinder, & Harris, [...]
When this question popped in my head, it sparked my curiosity. I had been reading through Explain Pain recently and I got a sense of something that perturbed me. I wondered if it had something to do with the necessity of the inherent nature of duality. So, as I often do, I thought I would [...]
Why is it that people living with pain upon seeing a healthcare professional often report, “ I have been told that it’s all in my head” and that the central focus of pain management programs is towards living well and not what people living with pain commonly report – the desire for pain reduction. Admittedly, [...]
Kablooey! You have a bout of back pain. It's unpleasant and so off to the.... (insert health professional) you go. You tell your story, they ask a bunch of questions, do an assessment, a bit of jiggery pokery and then give you a couple of exercises to do (be it stickmen, pictures or videos downloaded [...]
Diagnosis is an important part of healthcare provision. Quite simply, people want to know what’s wrong with them in order to know what can be done about it. Clinicians diagnose so to provide the person living with a disease, the appropriate treatment (Gifford, 2014). Historically, in musculoskeletal medicine diagnosis has taken the form of identifying [...]
Warning: This blog is lengthy, contains jargon, waffling and rabbit holes. In one of the scenes in the movie The Matrix, Morpheus introduces Neo to the Matrix for the first time. Morpheus explains the construct, a loading program, where anything can be loaded from clothing to equipment, training simulations, anything they need. Cue abstract from [...]
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