Usually I use a short quote in the beginning of the post to highlight the latest findings in the field of chronic pain. Today's post is just one big quote.
In November of last year Sarah Berry, health writer at The Sydney Morning Herald, published an article entitled "The way we treat pain may be causing us harm." She interviewed scientists and researches working in the field of chronic pain from all over the globe, and what she found out was nothing less then shocking.
Here, have a look:
"Professor Paulo Ferreira, a physiotherapist and pain expert at the University of Sydney, says most people believe that pain medication and rest are the best ways to manage chronic pain, but their research suggests the opposite is true.
"We are trying to fight the concept that musculoskeletal-pain means staying in bed. The general public doesn't know that, and they still enter a very wrong course of care most of the time..."
"For most cases, the most effective, evidence - based treatment is exercise. That's true for back pain or knee osteoarthritis - the two - most common musculoskeletal pain conditions."
"Chronic pain is a complex problem where there is interplay between body, mind and environment, meaning that anxiety and fear can exacerbate pain."
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