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How to Get Better When Pain is Chronic
In the last post, we began to introduce a broad definition of coping, as one’s subjective experience, or reaction, to a problem. In this post, let’s expand on this definition and explain how coming to...
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Can you experience the same pain differently?
A major tenet of chronic pain rehabilitation is that the way you experience pain is not the only possible way to experience pain. In other words, the experience of pain differs across individuals and...
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Developing an Observational Self: How to Cope with Pain Series
From the time before Socrates in ancient Greece there stood a temple built upon a spring at a location the Greeks would have considered the center of the world. Inscribed on the walls of this holy...
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Does Your Pain Clinic Teach Coping?
As we’ve discussed in an earlier post, not all pain clinics are alike. To be sure, all pain clinics provide therapies aimed at reducing pain. Some, however, don’t stop there. They set out to...
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Chronic Pain Rehabilitation
A central tenet of chronic pain rehabilitation is that what initially caused your pain is often not now the only thing that is maintaining your pain on a chronic course. Let’s unpack this important...
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Coping: Ideas that Change Pain
Coping-based healthcare is often misunderstood in society and, as a result, it is commonly neglected by healthcare providers and patients alike. Examples of such care are chronic pain rehabilitation...
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Self-Management
Often in discussions of chronic pain and its treatments, self-management gets neglected as a viable option. It gets forgotten about. Or perhaps it just never comes to mind when patients or providers...
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The Perfectionist and Chronic Pain: How to Cope with Pain Series
While clinical lore is that perfectionists are more prone to the development of chronic pain, it may just be that perfectionists are more likely to seek care for their chronic pain. Reason?...
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Why We Do What We Do
The Institute for Chronic Pain has a new content page on our website entitled: Why Healthcare Providers Deliver Ineffective Care. As is our custom, we announce such additions to the website on our blog...
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Ending the Stigma of Pain: A New ICP Webpage
The stigma of chronic pain is personally hurtful. It is a negative judgment of you that others make. Specifically, stigma occurs when others judge you simply for being who you are – someone with...
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Stress, Inflammation and Chronic Pain
People with chronic pain know that they tend to have a pain flare when they are under stress. They are, however, sometimes sensitive to acknowledge it aloud for fear that others might think that their...
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A Webpage Worth the Read
Those of you who are connected to one of our social media sites know that we tend to post daily on the latest news and research in the field of chronic pain management. We recently came across a...
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Mind Reading: How to Cope with Pain Series
No, this post is not about telepathy. It’s about a common problem faced by people with chronic pain and how to overcome it. Mind reading defined The phrase “mind reading” is a piece of technical jargon...
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CBT and Central Sensitization
A study published this month in Pain produced what is likely some of the most important research findings this year for the field of chronic pain rehabilitation. The study demonstrated that basic CBT...
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Opioid Tolerance
When engaging in long-term opioid management for chronic pain, should healthcare providers discuss with patients that typically the medications won’t remain effective for the rest of their life? That...
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How Stigma Prevents Self-Management
We tend to stigmatize pain because we misunderstand its nature. Specifically, we fail to acknowledge the role that the nervous system plays in producing the experience of pain. If we more fully...
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An Alternative to Opioids for Chronic Pain
It’s an interesting fact about the field of chronic pain management that there is a safe and effective alternative to the use of opioids for chronic pain, but relatively few people know about it. The...
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Overcome Social Stigma of Chronic Pain
The Institute for Chronic Pain website has a new article on the social stigma of chronic pain. It explains the nature of social stigma and challenges both providers and patients to take the difficult...
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Institute for Chronic Pain – One Year Anniversary
The Institute for Chronic Pain celebrates this month its one-year anniversary of going live with our website and blog. The Institute for Chronic Pain is an educational and public policy ‘think tank’...
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September is Pain Awareness Month
September is Pain Awareness Month! It is a special month for us at the Institute for Chronic Pain (ICP). The theme of the month is one of the central goals of our mission. Specifically, our mission is...
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