A clinician explains that pain doesn't mean your body is damaged. The first step in recovery is showing patients that movement is safe through simple exercises like bodyweight resistance and balance training at home, which breaks the fear cycle that keeps people stuck.
You don't even need a gym membership to get started. You can do resistance training just using the stuff you have lying around your home, even just with your own body weight. Balance is a skill, which is really good news because like any other skill, it can be improved. It improves with practice and repetition.
So someone comes to you and everything hurts. Yeah. What would be their first step?
I can think of a couple of patients who've come in to see me and they're in loads of pain, any movement hurts. Even when you just touch them, they sort of jump. And you think, well, that's not a normal response. So what we have to do for that person is prove that movement is not dangerous.
You've treated thousands of people. What truth do you know that you find that most experts out there are missing?
Pain does not mean you're broken or damaged.
