Our healthcare system is keeping you in pain.
Did you realize that our healthcare system straight up keeps people in pain, by creating more problems beyond the actual injury that brought someone in, in the first place??
Therapists and docs are scared of pain too (especially when it’s chronic) and manage people away from activity as soon as something hurts or leads to soreness, which just shifts more fear onto the person experiencing the injury.
Rest periods and restrictions are based off of made up numbers, and unless a bone is literally broken or something is sticking in our out of your body, full rest is unnecessary and causes a cascade of other systemic issues.
People are being micromanaged due to therapists having a “fix-it” mentality, where movement patterns are hyper-analyzed and corrected, and manual therapy is framed as a necessity to allow things to “move properly” before activity/exercise is “allowed”.
It’s easier for people to get their hands on prescription narcotics than it is to get good quality care, and while medications can sometimes help short-term, exit strategies and how to safely be active again, are rarely discussed.
Therapists disempower clients by leaving them on machines/needles/hot-packs and going off to treat someone else at the same time, instead of taking the time to explain what’s happening, guide self-management strategies, and explore active care.
The rehab focus is on the diagnosis, scan report, and textbook checklists of what’s “supposed to happen”, and the human experiencing the injury and pain is forgotten about.
…no wonder chronic pain exists.
All because the clinicians are literally choosing to ignore the gold-standard best practice care methods that put the client first.
And I get it. I’ve been there.
As the client who was a ball of anxiety because of all the stories I was fed about what was wrong and needed to be fixed.
And as the therapist, taking course after course to learn the next-best skill that was going to be “the one” to take my clients’ pain away.
It can be so much more simple than what we’ve all been led to believe, though…
Assess the human, instead of the injury
Get clear on current abilities, and the meaningful goals.
If there's a gap between those two things, identify the hardest thing on the path between them, that can be done well.
Address the non-biological factors you identified
Prioritize positive experiences with movement that gradually increase in level of difficulty, until the goal is surpassed and the capacity of what can be done is raised.
You in??