HealthSkills Blog

2 min read 2022-06-20 05:38:22

The added stress of chronic pain on life

For a minute, I’d like you to grab an ice-cube. If you don’t have one handy, try this at home or when you’re having your next gin and tonic.

4 min read 2022-06-13 04:19:04

The IASP definition of pain is: An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or

6 min read 2022-05-30 04:41:23

Cast your mind back to the last time you decided to create a new habit. It might have been to eat more healthy food, to do daily mindfulness, to go

4 min read 2022-05-16 04:29:13

Towards the end of 2017, IASP put forward a new mechanistic classification: nociplastic pain. The definition is: “Pain that arises from altered

3 min read 2022-05-09 04:32:12

As the potential for greater repression of women’s autonomy grows (Afghanistan, United States, Mexico), along with racist and misogynist statements

4 min read 2022-04-11 05:12:15

It’s not hard to choose rehab fails, the problem is more about when to stop! I tell a lie, it’s more about how to make changes so these things

4 min read 2022-04-04 04:14:08

I’m beginning to think this series could grow into a monster – so many #rehabfails to pick from! Today’s post is about rehabilitation that

3 min read 2022-03-28 03:05:37

One size does not fit all. Cookie cutter treatments fail to take into account the huge variability each person brings into a clinical encounter,

5 min read 2022-03-21 03:30:14

Well obviously I’m not going to cover everything that goes wrong – and certainly not in one post! But inspired by some conversations I’ve had

3 min read 2022-03-07 03:30:27

It’s been said many times, so many times I can’t locate the originator of the saying “humans are meaning-making machines” – no more so than

3 min read 2022-02-14 04:05:46

In occupational therapy and some other health professions, reflective practice is a vital part of professional clinical activity. In others – not

3 min read 2022-01-24 05:35:08

Most of us will recognise that when we experience a pain, we firstly notice where it is, and the sensory qualities of it. We automatically make

5 min read 2022-01-17 04:10:43

Congratulations! You’re an insightful clinician who’s offered your patient a screening assessment to find out if she or he has psychosocial risk

5 min read 2022-01-10 04:29:32

People come to see us because they have a problem. So the formulation approach I’m taking today begins from “the problem” and works back and

5 min read 2021-12-13 03:20:34

In the previous few posts on what to do with all that assessment information I’ve talked about generating a formulation to guide treatment, and a