Understanding pain
Pain is not a reading off a gauge. It is shaped by load, sleep, stress and what you believe is happening inside you.
The old model said pain was a signal sent up from damaged tissue, and the amount of pain told you the amount of damage. Decades of research have taken that apart. Pain is produced by the nervous system, and it weighs far more than tissue.
That is not a way of saying pain is imagined. It is the opposite. It explains why two people with the same scan report completely different experiences, and why understanding what is happening tends to lower the volume.
These pieces explain how that works, in plain language, so you can make sense of what you feel and decide what to do next.
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Navigating chronic pain: understanding and managementChronic pain is complex, often misunderstood, and it affects countless lives. The work of Professor Lorimer Moseley reframes the relationship between the mind, the body and what we believe about both, and it changes what good management looks like.
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Is workplace ergonomics the answer to low back pain?High end chairs and carefully designed workspaces are held up as the answer to low back pain at work. Systematic reviews of physical and organisational ergonomic measures found they often changed very little. Here is what the evidence supports instead.
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Rethinking posture: more than just sitting up straightPosture is tied to spinal health in most people's minds, and an industry thrives on correcting it. The evidence linking a particular way of sitting or bending to pain is thin. Here is what that changes about how you move through a day.
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