Joanne Smith explains that pain behavior tells you more than imaging scans do. Pain often comes from your brain perceiving danger, not from structural damage. Understanding this distinction lets you coach yourself out of it.
And you're having to make a decision here on the cause of the pain. Trust me here, the way that the pain behaves matters so much more than what you may see on those scans and those findings. It's so much more important that we assess and really get curious about how pain behaves because there's so many giveaways into accurately diagnosing if your pain is behaving like perceived danger and that is being generated from the brain rather than a fault in the body. So yeah, number one, clarity. If you want to become your own best coach, then please start with getting the clarity. Speak to whoever you need to speak to because there's so many people who can help with this, me being one of them. And many, many more with many, many, many years of experience. So yeah, just definitely get that clarity because the brain, whatever it's decided to do to protect you, it's got some very amazing ability to turn it on, but it also has the same amazing ability to switch off these pain signals. symptom signals to switch them off entirely, and that can happen amazingly quickly with the accurate knowledge and understanding.
